Awning & Screen Production Technician (Day/Evening)

Sunconfex; Belgique; On-site; USD 34,851 - 46,468; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Correct starting salary

Flexible leave choices

Varied work on different machines

On-the-job training

Family atmosphere

Part-time work negotiable

Job summary

A textile manufacturing company is seeking a Production Worker for their Awning and Screen department, with day or evening shifts in Belgium. The job includes cutting, stitching, and gluing fabric, ensuring quality control, and working physically active. Ideal candidates possess skills in bonding and teamwork, and are flexible for additional hours during peak seasons. The role offers a starting salary with opportunities for advancement, flexible leave, and training within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Good metric and spatial understanding.
• Ability to work physically active, mainly standing.
• Flexible working hours and willingness to perform extra during peak periods.

Responsibilities

• Accurately cut cloth according to size specifications.
• Glue and stitch with attention to quality.
• Handle large cloth materials safely.

Skills

Bonding

Stitching

Cutting

Physical activity

Attention to detail

Team communication

Job description

Production worker Awning + Screen (Day or Evening shift)

What is your challenge?

You will work every day in the confection of quality awning textiles at one of the biggest players in Europe. Each fabric is unique, fully customized for the customer and must meet strict quality standards. You will support both our screen and awning departments, where you will work with larger fabric material and specialize in cutting, stitching and gluing. As a true team player, you will operate various machines in a polyvalent manner and help ensure a perfect finish and reliable delivery to our customers.

What is your range of duties?

• Cutting cloths accurately according to size specifications (by millimeters)
• Gluing cloths carefully and consistently
• Perform stitching with an eye for quality and neat finish
• Large cloth material handling, positioning and processing
• Checking finished cloths and detecting any errors
• Thinking along in solutions when there are deviations
• Assist in various posts within the department
• Communicate fluently with colleagues for efficient collaboration
• Monitor cleanliness and order in the workplace

Who are you?

Can you ...?

• Bonding
• Stitching
• Cut
• Can you work physically active, since the job is mainly standing upright

Are you ...?

• Flexible in your working hours, with willingness to perform extra hours in busy months
• precise in cutting and working at the millimeter level
• meticulous in bonding and quality-oriented
• experienced in stitching or motivated to learn this skill
• Useful in safely handling large cloth material
• Good at recognizing mistakes and thinking along about solutions
• calm, focused and responsible
• A team player who communicates fluently
• Inquisitive and polyvalent in operating various machines
• Flexible in tasks and assignments
• Living within a 30-minute radius of Ypres

Do you have ...?

• a good metric and spatial understanding (e.g., difference between mm, cm, m, etc.)
• want to get active and move every day

What's in it for you?

• A correct starting salary with opportunities for advancement
• flexible leave choices in coordination with colleagues
• varied work on different machines
• on-the-job training by a strong dynamic team
• a family atmosphere in which you can communicate easily with everyone
• part-time work is negotiable

Why Sunconfex?

The Sunconfex Group is a rapidly growing group of companies specializing in high-quality sun protection textiles. We are active throughout Europe and combine two activities: trading and distribution of a wide range of indoor and outdoor sun protection fabrics on the one hand, and confection of outdoor fabrics for sunscreens, awnings and window cloths on the other.

Our distribution arm, Solaye Fabrics, is exclusive distributor of a Korean premium collection with an excellent reputation in the shading world. A particularly large and permanent stock allows us to serve our customers quickly and efficiently.

Our clothing division Sunconfex specializes in custom front-system builders and develops patented, innovative systems to integrate sunscreens sleekly and elegantly into both flush-mounted and surface-mounted applications.

We operate in a seasonal industry, making flexibility and teamwork essential. Therefore, we are looking for employees who enjoy variety, collaboration and a dynamic work rhythm where peak months are interspersed with quieter periods.

Sunconfex has one manufacturing site and a distribution company in Ypres (Sunconfex bv, Solaye Fabrics) and a second production facility in Germany (Sunconfex Leipheim GmbH).

The vacancy Production Employee Canopy and Screen Department (day shift or evening shift) is for our site in Ypres (Belgium).

When will you come to work?

We work with 2 shifts, with you firmly choosing 1 of the two.

Day shift:

For the day shift, we work a standard hourly schedule of 37.5h/week. Where you will build up extra recup in the high season. To compensate, you can of course take recup in our off-season.

or

Evening shift:

For the evening shift we work immediately standard hourly schedule of 32.5h/week. In which you will build up extra recup in the high season. To compensate, you can of course take recup in our off-season.

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