Part-Time Packer

Part-Time Packer Milton Keynes, England

International Dance Shoes
Full Time Milton Keynes, England 10.5 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description

Job Specification:

Part-Time Packer
Location: Milton Keynes | Posted: March 2023

As our business gets back up to pre-pandemic levels despite these still being challenging times, we’re in need of some extra support in our packing and finishing area so that we can get more shoes into shoe boxes and out to dancers across the world.

The business

International Dance Shoes are one of the world’s leading brands of Ballroom & Latin American dance footwear, all hand-made in our factory in Milton Keynes. Our shoes are worn worldwide by the world’s best competitive dancers, fun-seeking social dancers, and on BBC’s famous ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ too!

We manufacture and then export shoes across the world and we’re recent recipients of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. We’re a family business, with a team of around 30 across our office and factory, which sells both online directly to dancers as well as via a huge network of stockists and distributors across the world with key markets in the US, Japan, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, China, and Australia!

The role

We need an extra pair of hands in our finishing and packing area. Our beautiful hand-made shoes need to be carefully and neatly packed for the customer, and those 100% recycled and recyclable shoe boxes then need to be packed in larger cartons to go to stockists, or in DHL bags to ship to online customers around the world.

Attention to detail is key as you’ll be labelling these shoe boxes too and we have lots of different designs and as our shoes are proudly made in the UK, there are lots of variations (heels, fittings etc.) to understand too. Furthermore, you may at times also need to make sure shoes then get despatched to the right customers at the right time.

We may also need support in our finishing areas which could involve adding those finishing touches to shoes and using some light stamping machines for stamping shoe sizes/branding on insoles & outsoles - which is pretty simple work with all training given!

You’ll switch between these roles so it’s an active job!

We’re a small, hard-working team and the successful candidate will need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work in a fast-paced environment and has good communication skills, is focussed, and can work efficiently under pressure. If this is you, and you like the sound of the role and business, get in touch!

Main responsibilities

  • Neatly pack and apply labels to shoe boxes as shoes come off our production tracks
  • Add finishing touches to shoes as and when required
  • Potentially help to organise despatch of shoes from our factory
  • Help out with any other ad-hoc tasks associated with packing and despatch

Skills we’re looking for

  • Good communicator and able to take on instructions clearly
  • Focused, with great attention to detail
  • Able to work quickly and efficiently unsupervised
  • Team player with a willingness to learn and help others

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract, Temp to perm
Contract length: 12 months
Part-time hours: 25 per week

Salary: £10.50 per hour

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Milton Keynes, MK13 0AT: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

  • Picking & packing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: PT-Pckr

Part-Time Packer
International Dance Shoes

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