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Programming & Operations Coordinator
Company: Hype Socks LLC
Location: Fort Payne, Alabama
Job Type: Full-Time, On-Site
Starting Pay: $14.00-$16.00/hour, based on experience
Position Overview
Hype Socks LLC is looking for a dependable, detail-oriented Programming & Operations Coordinator to join our manufacturing team in Fort Payne.
Approximately 70% of this position will focus on sock programming, including preparing, organizing, maintaining, and coordinating machine programs for customer orders.
The remaining responsibilities include light coordination of fulfillment and finishing operations, along with serving as an on-site point of communication for our off-site COO.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is comfortable with computers and technology, enjoys solving problems, and wants to develop a specialized technical skill set in manufacturing.
Primary Responsibilities
Sock Programming - 70%
- Create, prepare, organize, and manage sock machine programs
- Work from customer designs and production specifications
- Coordinate programming priorities with the production schedule
- Maintain organized records of programs, designs, and revisions
- Make program adjustments when production requirements change
- Communicate with technicians, fixers, knitters, and management
- Help troubleshoot programming-related production issues
- Ensure new orders are programmed and ready before production
- Develop a strong understanding of our machines, programming systems, yarns, sizing, and manufacturing process
Fulfillment Coordination - 15%
- Help organize orders ready for shipment
- Coordinate priorities with fulfillment employees
- Ensure orders move through fulfillment on schedule
- Identify delays or problems and communicate them to management
Finishing Department Coordination - 5-10%
- Communicate weekly priorities and expectations
- Help ensure completed socks move through finishing efficiently
- Identify bottlenecks or quality issues
- Participate in a short weekly meeting with the finishing team
COO & Operational Support - 5-10%
- Provide regular updates on programming and plant priorities
- Communicate production or staffing issues requiring management attention
- Follow up on assignments from the COO
- Help ensure leadership instructions are communicated and executed
- Keep communication organized between the manufacturing floor and off-site management
What We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is:
- Comfortable with computers and learning new software
- Technically minded and a strong problem solver
- Organized and detail-oriented
- Dependable and able to work independently
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities
- Able to communicate effectively with production employees and leadership
- Interested in learning the technical side of sock manufacturing
Experience with manufacturing, textiles, knitting machines, graphic design, production software, or machine programming is helpful but not required.
We’re primarily looking for the right combination of computer aptitude, organization, reliability, problem-solving ability, and willingness to learn.
Compensation
Starting Pay: $14.00-$16.00/hour, depending on experience and qualificationsSchedule: Full-Time, On-Site
This position offers the opportunity to develop a valuable technical skill set in hosiery manufacturing while gaining hands-on exposure to multiple areas of manufacturing operations.
Pay: $14.00 - $16.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
Salary : $14 - $16