Quality Inspector

Elgin Limited; Hawick; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnstons of Elgin is seeking a Quality Inspector in Hawick to perform detailed inspections, check labels, presentation, and dimensions, and to ensure records are shared with internal teams and customers. You will work with other departments to prioritise inspections, uphold our quality standards and accreditation, and follow established processes to ensure consistency and accuracy.

This is a permanent position, 38 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with in-house training available to support

Qualifications

• Have high attention to detail.
• Have a good eye for fault finding.
• Exhibit excellent communication skills.
• Be a team player with a proactive, "can-do" attitude.
• Capable of managing and prioritizing one's own workload.
• Use an organised and methodical work style.
• Have good colour vision.

Responsibilities

• Carry out inspections and make quality decisions on products, including checking labels, presentation and dimensions.
• Share completed inspection records internally and with customers.
• Work with other departments to prioritise inspections and maintain quality standards.
• Follow established processes to uphold quality accreditation with key customers.

Skills

Attention to detail

Fault finding

Communication

Team player

Workload management

Organisation

Colour vision

Job description

Quality Inspector

We are currently recruiting for a Quality Inspector in Hawick, where you will be responsible for carrying out inspections and making quality decisions on our products, including checking labels, presentation, and dimensions.

About the Role

As a Quality Inspector here at Johnstons of Elgin, you will be conducting detailed inspections on a variety of our products, ensuring that completed inspection records are shared internally and with our customers. You will be working closely with other departments to prioritise inspections and maintain our quality standards and follow established processes to uphold our quality accreditation with our key customers. You will need to be confident in making quality decisions following the high standards set by our customers.

This is a permanent position working 38 hours per week, over Monday to Friday.

Experience is required, but in house training will also be provided.

This is what we're looking for in our ideal candidate:

• Have high attention to detail
• Have a good eye for fault finding
• Exhibit excellent communication skills
• Be a team player with a proactive, "can-do" attitude
• Capable of managing and prioritizing one's own workload
• Use an organised and methodical work style
• Have good colour vision

About Us

Founded in 1797, Johnstons of Elgin is an innovative, luxury clothing brand celebrating 225 years of experience in working with the world's finest fibres. Across three centuries, our family-owned company has carefully sources cashmere and fine woollen fibres from around the world, applying the latest technology and highest quality craft expertise in our very own vertical Scottish mills. Employing over 1,000 staff, our valued employees and communities are at the heart of everything we do, producing unique, high-quality designs that are made to last. Our brand is focused on sustainability, working with natural, renewable, and biodegradable fibres and we are committed to maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.

Johnstons of Elgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer wholeheartedly supporting the principles of equality and diversity to build an inclusive workforce. Our aim is to embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do to create an environment where our employees feel safe to be their whole authentic self without having to downplay or change parts of their identity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, which goes beyond those characteristics protected by law to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking.

We endeavour to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and encourage any candidate who requires assistance to contact us at [e-mail].

Please note all applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to remain and take up paid employment in country job is based.

Closing date: 27 October 2026