Join Thread

Overview

You will

• Make sure our reception and office runs well – keeping our office tidy and presentable and lend a helping hand where needed
• Answer our phone and handle our mail both professionally and efficiently
• Prepare refreshments for client meetings
• Run errands and coordinate the weekly purchases of everything from
  groceries to office supplies
• Handle receipts for the credit card, taxi vouchers and various invoices
• Enter financial information into Sage
• Coordinate postage/dispatch or parcels

You are

• Enthusiastic and have a proactive approach to your work
• Cheerful
• A neat freak with a natural flair for making the atmosphere around you nice
• A flexible and no-nonsense type of person
• Very service-minded and able to conduct your work with a smile
• A motivated and outgoing self-starter
• Structured and good at juggling many tasks at once

We offer you

• The chance to become part of a creative, fun and professional team within a multi-disciplinary design environment

About us

Thread Design is a design consultancy based in Cardiff that specialises in products that have fabric or flexible materials in them somewhere. We develop products for international clients from a wide range of industries. Our aim is to make stuff that works.

Boring stuff

• Hours: 20 hrs/week total over 3-5 days
• Salary: £7-10k p/a depending on skills/qualifications
• Holidays: 28 days including bank holidays

Extra bits

We’re interested to see examples of previous work in a pdf or web portfolio. For more information contact Rachel Tomlinson Rachel@thread- design.co.uk

Overview

Are you an energetic and reliable individual with lots of initiative? Do you feel like taking on a diverse and well-rounded role in a social and dynamic environment? Are you a happy and hard-working person who loves to create and stitch up 3D objects? If you answered yes, then this might be a great opportunity for you.

We’re looking for a highly skilled textile prototyper to help us create beautifully well-finished 3D prototypes of a diverse range of products eg. Rucksacks, body armour, pouches for medical devices, technical sports clothing etc.

You will

• Help transform design intents into fully realised 3D objects
• Be able to stitch up prototypes to an exceptional standard
• Be able to develop patterns
• Be able to mark and cut fabric precisely
• Be interested in materials, their properties and innovations in materials/new developments
• Be able to communicate ideas verbally and through sketches
• Be able to work quickly to produce rough prototypes but also be able to produce prototypes finished to the highest quality
• Maintain order in fabric and haberdashery supplies
• Maintain stocks of fabric and haberdashery

You are

• Enthusiastic and have a proactive approach to your work
• Cheerful
• A motivated and outgoing self-starter
• Deeply curious about how things are made or could be made

We offer you

• The chance to become part of a creative, fun and professional team within a multi-disciplinary design environment

About us

Thread Design is a design consultancy based in Cardiff that specialises in products that have fabric or flexible materials in them somewhere. We develop products for international clients from a wide range of industries. Our aim is to make stuff that works.

Boring stuff

• We are currently considering Contract, Part Time and Full time
• Hours we keep: 35 hrs/week 9.30am – 5.30pm
• Salary: £17-25k p/a depending on skills/qualifications
• Holidays: 28 days including bank holidays

Extra bits

We’re interested to see examples of previous work in a pdf or web portfolio. For more information contact Rachel Tomlinson Rachel@thread- design.co.uk