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SalaryWho we are:
Rooted in humility, hard work, and some fun and a little weirdness (one of our six ‘Guiding Principles’), TentCraft is a capabilities rich manufacturer with a no-shame obsession with the world of experiential and outdoor marketing. We live, work and play in Traverse City, Michigan, and while you’ll find our work nationwide, we operate together from a single facility. Everything we design, engineer, build, print and sew happens under one roof and is proudly American made. Long story short, we’re one big talented team of LEAN thinkers dedicated to Make it Better from sea to shining sea for our clients and our TentCraft family. We’ve always got continuous improvement on our minds and creative solutions are our jam, so if we need to get a little scrappy to make magic actually happen, we’re down for that.
Cool, right? Sound like you? Let’s talk.
What are we looking for:
Fun, reliable, and a little weird, that's what we need right now! A Seasonal employee is brought in to assist TentCraft, when we are in our busy season which starts up in March and depending on the number of jobs coming through can continue through the summer into early fall. A General Production employee is an hourly position that will work Monday – Friday with start times ranging from 6:30 to 8:00 AM and are 8 hour shifts, additionally you could be asked to work 10 hour shifts and/or weekend work as needed supporting multiple production departments. The position pays $18 an hour and is flexible for employees in need of part time schedule where we are willing to work around school hours or Full Time hours during summer break. A good sense of humor, incredible work ethic and motivation to burst through ceilings are essential. Below you’ll find a list of the departments this position will be supporting and a brief description of what each area will entail:
- Metal Fabrication: Assemble pop up tent frames, the corresponding sub-assembly components and tent accessories.
- Final Inspection: Quality control- setting up finished product and inspection for quality, tear down and prepare product to be shipped.
- eCommerce/Soft goods fabrication: this team is responsible for prepping, boxing and shipping small to medium sized banners and pillows.
- Logistics Shipping & Receiving: Ensure that items delivered match items on purchase order, inspect incoming freight for damage goods, greet delivery drivers and unload inventory as required.
- Hot Air Welding: Part of the fabrication team, assists with custom projects and larger frame tents.
- Sewing Fabrication: this teams sews together all tents and accessories.
- Zund: Runs a Zund laser cutting machine that cuts off the print roll and able to hand off fabric to the sewing fabrication team.
- Print: Runs machines to print various products on different materials.
As a vertically integrated manufacturing company with lightning fast turnaround times, accuracy can be the difference between meeting a customer’s need or watching them walk straight into the arms of our growing competition, so yeah, if you love details and you love problem solving on the fly we want to talk to you about working at TentCraft.
What you need:
- Pull, push, or lift 30-50 pounds consistently.
- Constantly moving around the production floor up to 10 hours a day.
- Twisting and bending to assemble products.
- Trustworthy, punctual and dependable.
- Frame of mind to be excellent and make excellent products.
- The capacity to be flexible with your schedule.
- To be able to think like a customer, detail oriented and quality driven.
- Have a mindset to continuously improve processes as well as themselves.
- Strong desire to Make it Better.
- Willingness to learn, take direction and respect others.
- Ability to keep up in a fast-paced team environment, have the ability to multi-task and reflect a positive attitude towards challenging job requirements.
- Ability to work on your feet all day, drag, pull and lift up to 10-50 pounds depending on which area working in.
- Enthusiasm and ideas are a must!
What we’ll give you:
- A work environment that will make your family proud and your friends jealous
- Ping-pong and basketball during breaks, popcorn, hot coca/tea/coffee and snow cones!
- A fun group of coworkers who want nothing more than to see you succeed and will stop at nothing to ensure you do
Bottom line:
We began as a start-up company within a large organization and have experienced rapid and sustainable growth by hiring A+ people who are committed to the continued growth and success of this company. We offer a tremendous work environment, great leadership and all the help you could ever ask for. Our goal is for this to be the best job you’ve ever had.
TentCraft, LLC. and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, genetic information, disability, or any other characteristics as protected by federal, state or local law.
