Quality Control Technician

at  JD Sports

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE NEEDED:

• Good organisational and communication skills
• A keen eye for detail & fault finding
• Computer literate
• Numerical and analytical
• Ability to work under pressure
• Requires periods of standing, moving cartons’ and working in an environment with a variety of fabrics and fibres
• Full driving licence required, some travel to head office, external companies and stores
• Pattern cutting / design an advantage but not essential
• Flat / overlock machinist an advantage but not essential
• Previous QC/ QA or retail experience an advantage but not essential
• Knowledge of WMS would be an advantage however not essential

• Measure and inspect garments & product for quality defects
• Using AQL level and systems to create order reports
• Comparing seal samples with PLM system information
• Reporting, recording and analysing results on a weekly/monthly basis
• Liaising and communicating issues with internal/ external departments daily
• Arranging rectification and re-processing as required
• Planning workloads based on daily intake
• Organising Gold Seal samples and reports for next week /day’s orders
• Review returns & factory AQL reports against stock intakes
• Move and locate bulk warehouse stock for inspection using WMS systems
• Maintain spreadsheets using Excel, create graphs and charts for reporting.
• Ad-hoc reports and analysis for the team as required
• Off-site product checks at store and third party
• Requires periods of standing, moving cartons’ and working in an environment with a variety of fabrics and fibres