Production Assistant

Role: Production Assistant

Reports to: Production Manager

Job Purpose: To assist the Ready-to-Wear Production Department in ensuring garments are delivered on time, with good quality, and at the target margin. 

What we are looking for:

• Supporting the Production Coordinators in ordering fabric and trims required for bulk production in a timely manner. 
• Ordering recurring season stock for packaging and labelling and maintaining an accurate stocktake.
• Helping to dispatch all raw materials and packaging / labelling from studio to factories, in coherence with planned Critical Path and calendar dates. 
• Create dispatch notes for each raw material shipment to factory, keeping a record of all raw materials and packaging sent. Emailing to factories with tracking details and delivery notes. 
• Support coordinators chasing in certification and supplier declarations where required.
• Creating and ordering care labels
• Accurate stocktaking of trims and packaging both in house and at factories using RLM.
• Ensuring barcode stickers are emailed or printed and sent out to all factories. 
• Update any BOMs which need amending after the Production/PD handover.
• Print, check and code production invoices, log in the Invoice Log and RLM.
• Collect PP packages. 
• Receive bulk goods delivery notes from Logistics Manager.  

Additional:

• Preparing courier shipments and organizing courier collections. 
• Completing all shipping paperwork. 
• Creating shipping labels.
• Keep up to date trackers of all Production courier expenses. 
• Collecting all packages from reception when notified of delivery. 
• Ensuring all emails from factories and suppliers are replied to within a 24 hour period. 
• Help keeping the Production area and supplies organized and clearly labelled. 

Skills and Experience Needed:

• Previous internship or assistant experience in a similar role and department.  
• Experience working with a CMT womenswear & menswear brand would be a plus. 
• Ability to multitask, maintain focus and ensure accuracy and attention to detail at all times. 
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with a solid understanding of retail math.
• Proactive and enjoys problem solving. 
• Dedicated and hard working.  
• An interest, enthusiasm and passion for fashion.