Embroidery Operator

Here's what you'll be doing....

As part of a fantastic entrepreneurial team, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop new skills and train on various embroidery and digital printing processes. You’ll work with all aspects of custom order garment production and operate embroidery machines.

Our experienced team members invite candidates to join our team: we are looking for candidates who are excited by embroidery, digital printing, and new learning opportunities. While we appreciate experience, we invite candidates who have an interest in learning about embroidery. Your interest and aptitude will drive the direction of your training experience!

We’d like you to be available to work approximately 25 – 35 hours weekly. Our Campus Outfitters business operates year-round, and we offer flexible scheduling including early morning, and late afternoon shifts along with weekend day shifts. We are located at Dufferin Street and Steeles Avenue with easy access to TTC.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Prepare garments for decoration
• Operate the equipment in compliance with quality and safety standards
• Decorate garments using embroidery, printing or heat transfers
• Perform regular production quality control
• Unpack, tag and pack product; maintain the storage space
• Assist supervisor with equipment maintenance and troubleshooting

Education, Qualifications, and Experience:

• High school graduate, or combination education/experience
• 1-2 years’ production experience is preferable, willing to train

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Basic mechanical aptitude for equipment maintenance and troubleshooting
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Organized; attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 notably Outlook, Excel and Word
• Energetic; you thrive in a team environment
• Move/lift cartons/product weighing up 25 kg
• Intellectual curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning is highly valued – a growth mindset
• Values matter to you. You bring your whole self to work and you live our values of accountability, innovation, respect, and customer focus

About our Team:

The U of T Bookstore provides many important goods and services to the University of Toronto community. We operate four stores across the three U of T campuses (St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough, and Faculty of Law) and a large online shop that ships Canada-wide and internationally. We offer a wide selection of course materials including new, used, digital, and custom course pack options, all competitively priced with a student budget in mind. We also carry U of T–branded clothing and merchandise, gifts, trade books, technology products, school supplies, and more.

Campus Outfitters offers a variety of clothing and accessory customization services. With origins in the world of collegiate apparel and spirit wear, we have become one of the go-to producers of custom clothing for Canadian universities and colleges. We specialize in embroidery and offer on-demand customized apparel service. Beyond our work with academic institutions, we have extensive experience working with student groups, corporate clients, athletic teams and individual customers.

About University of Toronto Press:

University of Toronto Press (UTP) is one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing landmark scholarship since 1901. Each year UTP releases over 200 new scholarly, course, and general interest books in both print and eBook format and over 45 journals. In addition, UTP manages the distribution for over 200 publishers and imprints in Canada, the US and around the world, with warehouses in Toronto ON and Buffalo NY. UTP also runs all of the University of Toronto Bookstores across the three main campuses, serving over 95,000 students and 15,000 faculty. For more information, please visit utorontopress.com.

As the leading university press in Canada and one of the largest in North America, we acknowledge our role and responsibility in effecting positive change. With this, we seek to continuously improve the diversity and representation of our publications and the clients we represent, as well as within the makeup of our organization. With strong commitment from leadership, we are collectively bringing forward change across the organization, both within our company culture and in our publishing, distribution, and retail endeavours. UTP operates with mutual trust, respect, and integrity as we strive to identify and remove barriers. We are committed to making UTP a great place to work by addressing and challenging systemic inequities.