Textiles Assistant

Location Redruth
Discipline: Industrial & Manufacturing
Job type: Temp to Perm
Salary: £11.44 per hour
Contact name: Kirra Graham

Contact email: kirra@smithandreed.co.uk

​​​An exciting opportunity has become available to join a busy manufacturing team in Redruth in the role of Trainee Cutter / Trainee Machinist.

The role will see the chosen candidate working within a busy team. you will receive on the job training, although previous experience within a similar role would be desirable.

You will ideally have some interest of the textile industry and be looking for a new challenge.

After 12 successful weeks you will be offered a permanent contract which will offer two wellness days, also after 5 years your holiday allowance will increase to 32 days!

Company Overview:

They exist to create products that enable individuals to overcome physical challenges and help them to reach their life goals. They strive to make every product with care and attention and proud to send their products worldwide. They aim to be a sustainable business that stands the test of time, providing solutions and products of the highest calibre.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Following different patterns to cut and clip to specified measurements.

  • Sewing bespoke garments including reinforcements and fastenings

  • Check products to specifications

  • Sew alterations as required

  • Log work on manufacturing software

Skills and Experience:

  • Experience is desirable but not essential as full training can be provided to the right candidate

  • Must be thorough and precise

  • Have a high attention to detail

  • Ability to work well with your hands

  • Numerically competent and computer literate

  • Ability to work to own initiative as well as part of a team

Working hours:

39 hours per week, 07:30 – 16:30 Monday – Thursday, 07:00 – 12:00 on a Friday

Salary: From £11.44 per hour.

What’s in it for you:

  • Full time hours

  • Full on the job training

  • Early finish every Friday!

Interested? Please get in contact today!

Smith and Reed Recruitment embraces diversity, equality and inclusion and aim to promote the benefits of diversity in all our business activities. Smith and Reed will treat everyone equally and will not discriminate on the grounds of an individual’s “protected characteristic” under the Equality Act 2010 (the Act) which are age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. All candidates will be assessed solely on their ability to carry out the job in question based on skills, experience, and qualifications.