Threads & Lasers | Holly Springs, NC
Embroidery is all about the details.
A design can be beautiful, but if it's crooked on the polo, it doesn't matter.
The thread can be perfect, but if it's the wrong color, it doesn't matter.
The machine can run flawlessly, but if nobody notices a problem until 40 pieces are finished, we still have a problem.
Threads & Lasers is looking for an Embroidery Production Specialist who understands (or wants to learn) that great embroidery requires patience, precision, organization, and ownership.
We're looking for someone who doesn't simply run the machine.
We're looking for someone who owns the quality coming off of it.
You'll work directly with our Production Manager to produce embroidered apparel and products for businesses, schools, teams, organizations, corporate clients, events, and more.
You'll work with commercial embroidery equipment on items including:
Some jobs will be straightforward.
Others will make you wonder why anyone ever thought embroidering that particular item was a good idea.
That's part of the fun.
We're not measuring success by how long the embroidery machine runs.
We're measuring what comes off of it.
1. Embroidery Meets Our Quality Standards
Before and during production, you verify:
You don't wait until the entire order is finished to inspect it.
Quality control happens throughout production.
2. You Catch Problems Early
Thread breaks. Needles break. Tension changes. Garments shift. Hats are hats. Things happen. The important part is what you do next.
We're looking for someone who notices changes, stops when necessary, investigates the cause, corrects what they can, and communicates when they need help.
3. You Own Your Jobs
Once a job is assigned to you, you're responsible for keeping it organized and moving it through embroidery production.
That includes setup, production, quality checks, finishing, counting, and communicating completion or problems to the Production Manager.
4. You Take Care of the Equipment
Our equipment is essential to our business. You'll help keep embroidery machines clean, maintained, supplied, and ready for production.
You'll learn routine maintenance and basic troubleshooting and communicate equipment problems before they become bigger problems.
5. Finished Means Finished
A garment isn't finished just because it came off the machine.
Finished means:
That's finished.
Your responsibilities may include:
You'll probably be a great fit if you:
Previous commercial embroidery experience is strongly preferred, particularly experience with multi-needle commercial embroidery equipment.
Experience with any of the following is a plus:
However, we're willing to consider someone without direct commercial embroidery experience who has strong mechanical aptitude, exceptional attention to detail, patience, and a genuine desire to learn.
Once you're fully trained, we should be able to assign you an embroidery order and trust you to take ownership of your part of the process.
You know what you're producing.
You know how many you're producing.
You know what "good" looks like.
You inspect your work.
You keep your order organized.
You communicate problems.
And you don't need someone standing beside you reminding you to care about the details.
Your name may not be on the finished product, but your craftsmanship is.
That's what we're looking for.
Click Apply Now and provide these details:
And answer this question:
Tell us about a time you saw a problem at work that technically wasn't yours to solve, but you took ownership of it anyway. What did you do?
We're less interested in the perfect answer than we are in understanding how you think.
If this sounds like the kind of responsibility you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.
