Quality Control Assistant (3 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Oliver Bonas; London; Remote; GBP 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

An established retailer seeks a Quality Control Assistant for a fixed-term role supporting product quality inspections in London. You will ensure products meet standards by inspecting deliveries and coordinating with various departments. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits including a generous employee discount and access to various support programs.

Benefits

Generous employee discount up to 50% off all OB products

Free access to onsite gym

Cycle to work scheme

Quarterly free lunch

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Qualifications

• Experience within a quality or technical department preferred.
• Ability to work independently and remotely.
• Intermediate to advanced level in Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Inspect samples of OB products prior to accepting deliveries into the warehouse.
• Prepare product specs and communicate daily with the Quality Control Manager.
• Organize solutions for failed products and update QC reports.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Organizational skills

Commercial awareness

Education

Relevant qualification in quality control or related field

Tools

Excel

Word

Job description

Quality Control Assistant (3 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Pay: Competitive salary plus benefits

Job Type: Sales/Retail

Location: TELECOMMUTE UK Chessington Chessington , United Kingdom

Category: Gap/Temp And Parttime/Holiday

Available from: Immediately

Finishes on: Ongoing Position

Type of work: Full Time, Indoor , Daytime Work, Weekend Work

We are looking for a Quality Control Assistant to join Team OB in our Support Office.

This role will be a fixed-term contract starting from early July and running until the end of October to support the team during the peak period. It will be a full time contract working a 5 day week pattern to include at least one weekend day

As a Quality Control Assistant at OB, you will inspect samples of every OB product category prior to accepting deliveries into the warehouse.

You will be working independently as well as with the wider Quality Control team, and alongside various other departments including Warehouse, Product Tech, Buying, Merchandising and Customer Services. This is physical role requiring a large amount of time spent in the warehouse checking deliveries and potentially lifting and moving boxes from various locations.

You will ideally have experience within a quality or technical department and or studied a relevant qualification.

Our Support Office is based in Tolworth, near Chessington, only a 30-minute journey from London Waterloo.

A bit about us …

At Oliver Bonas (OB), our values of Work Hard, Play Hard & Be Kind are integral to everything we do. Collaboration, imagination, curiosity, and teamwork are key to our success, and everyone has their part to play in making OB a special place to work.

Having fun is key, and a playful and positive approach creates an optimistic environment. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are serious about what we do.

Our team knows their stuff. They’re confident and creative and unafraid to challenge convention to find solutions, taking accountability for their actions, but always with kindness and humility.

More about the role …

An OB Quality Control Assistant will:

• Check the weekly intake schedules and prepare all documents and product information for AQL inspection.

• Prepare product specs, product pictures and any technical information required for inspection.

• Communicate with the Quality Control Manager and Quality Control team daily to discuss the intake and any issues found with products.

• Liaise with the merchandising and goods in teams to request priorities with the intake when necessary.

• Organise remedial solutions with third party UK based processors on failed products.

• Investigate any quality issues or queries raised by OB Stores and Customer Services.

• Work alongside QC team to monitor lines with faulty issues and discuss what action to take.

• Ensure correct protocol is followed when failed/ rejected stock is returned to the Vendors and Suppliers.

• Communicate effectively with QC team, Warehouse and Buying & Merchandising Teams where non-compliance, faulty, incorrect or damaged items occur.

• Report issues suggesting solutions and assist in the application of corrective/preventative action.

• Update QC reports and schedules.

• Generous employee discount up to 50% off all OB products

• Free access to our 24 hour employee assistance programme with Care First – offering financial, emotional and vocational support

• Annual discretionary profit related bonus scheme

• Free access to our onsite gym

• Cycle to work scheme

• Refer a Friend incentive

• Quarterly free lunch

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Voice network and EDI team

• Education and support through 360L eLearning platform

What we look for:

• Knowledge of garment and accessory construction and technology

• Understanding of AQL procedures is preferred

• A keen eye for detail and a high level of commercial awareness

• Intermediate to Advanced level in Word and Excel

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to organise, prioritise and discern is esssential.

• Ability to work remotely and independently.

• Confident to make commercial decisions based on product knowledge.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at OB

At Oliver Bonas, our promise is to do our bit to make living a joyful experience and give cause for optimism. This promise is central to our work in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). To bring joy to others, we must first ensure everyone at OB feels valued, included and most importantly, can be themselves at work.

It is important to us that our brand reflects wider society and the communities in which we operate. As a result, we welcome all eligible applicants for this role however we are particularly interested in speaking to eligible candidates from the Black, Asian & Mixed Heritage communities.

Oliver Bonas is a Disability Confident Committed employer under the Disability Confident employer scheme.

To read more about our ED&I commitments, head over to the EDI page on our website: https://www.oliverbonas.com/meet-the-team/diversity

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