Workshop Assistant

Job description: workshop assistant

For six decades we have been enabling our customers to live better, with less, that lasts longer. During that time we have become respected for our single-minded commitment to responsible design via the continuous and evolving production of our furniture, designed by Dieter Rams. Today we deliver directly to customers in more than 90 countries.

Job purpose:

This is a unique opportunity to join a high-pace team and gain valuable professional experience. You will prepare, assemble and pack orders, ensuring that Vitsœ’s customers receive the high-quality product and service expected of this quietly-successful British manufacturing and retail business.

Key areas of responsibility:

• assemble unique customer orders with an acute attention to detail
• dispatch orders on time with the aid of information provided by Vitsœ’s web-based tools
• maintain the cleanliness and tidiness of the workshop to ensure all staff continue to work in a safe and pleasant environment
• ensure goods are received, recorded and stored correctly; this includes undertaking perpetual stock control dependant on workloads, it may be necessary to help the installation team on-site

The role requires:

• focus and attention to detail
• manual dexterity
• the use of power, compressed-air and hand tools in a safe manner
• good communication with assembly, logistics, purchasing, installation and planning teams
• pride in a job well done
• to be physically fit

The person will be:

careful and diligent – even meticulous – with a good dose of common sense demanding of high standards and at ease with demanding people efficient, effective and organised, in both the physical and digital worlds modestly confident and also personable, good humoured and trustworthy at home in the worlds of art, architecture, craft and design informal but $100 %$ professional while respecting traditional courtesy and good manners

Location: Royal Leamington Spa

Duration: minimum of 9 months