Responsible To: Raw Materials Team Leader
About the Role: As a key member of the Raw Material team, you will be tasked with quality-testing, receipting, and assigning fibres for our mills in Elgin and Hawick. This role also involves creating purchase orders, issuing lot numbers, running raw material reports, managing spreadsheets and databases, checking for late deliveries, liaising with internal stakeholders on fibre-related issues, and suppliers on fibre shipments and documentation.
This is a permanent, part time opportunity working 20 hours per week.
Salary is starting from £12,916.80 per annum (pro rata for 20 hours per week), with the full time equivalent £24,541.92 per annum, dependent on experience.

ABOUT US

Founded in 1797, Johnstons of Elgin is an innovative, luxury clothing brand celebrating 225 years of experience in working with the world’s finest fibres. Across three centuries, our family-owned company has carefully sources cashmere and fine woollen fibres from around the world, applying the latest technology and highest quality craft expertise in our very own vertical Scottish mills. Employing over 1,000 staff, our valued employees and communities are at the heart of everything we do, producing unique, high-quality designs that are made to last. Our brand is focused on sustainability, working with natural, renewable, and biodegradable fibres and we are committed to maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.
Johnstons of Elgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer wholeheartedly supporting the principles of equality and diversity to build an inclusive workforce. Our aim is to embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do to create an environment where our employees feel safe to be their whole authentic self without having to downplay or change parts of their identity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, which goes beyond those characteristics protected by law to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking.
We endeavour to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and encourage any candidate who requires assistance to contact us at hr@johnstonsofelgin.com.
Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement or qualification. At Johnstons of Elgin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but think your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Please note all applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to remain and take up paid employment in country job is based.
Closing Date - Friday 14tth February 202

• Fibre quality testing, including test for fibre diameter, length, shade, detecting coarse hair content, dark hair count, vegetable matter count, contamination assessment, recording moisture content and so on.
• Receipting, scheduling and assigning raw materials for all production.
• Managing raw materials (fibre) inventory across our depots.
• Calling off raw materials from our warehouse partners and liaising with warehouse partners on raw materials transportation and storage.
• Administration of new bills of materials (BOMs) onto the production scheduling boards.
• Creating purchase orders for approved fibre purchases and communicate POs to vendors.
• Assist in approving supplier’s samples against contract for onward shipment to delivery location.
• Handling paper works/correspondences on raw materials and maintaining/creating various spreadsheets for data on raw materials (including as relating to sustainability programmes).
• Working with planning, production, procurement, dyehouse and other internal stakeholders to support smooth running of our supply chain operations.
• Support in creating, setting up and implementing new fibre blends.
• Prepare and send fibre samples for external composition tests with the right documentation.
• Provide support in assessing any risk associated with the quality of raw materials.
• Assist with data entry and provision of cover within the raw material team.
• Managing the raw material sample library.
• Assist team with “by-product” materials and “redundant yarn” stock sales and stock management.
• Working with computer and IT systems to manage the aforementioned tasks.