Production Embroiderer

Experienced Multi-Head Embroidery Operator (Barudan) Hartford, CT
Schedule: Full-time, on-site, [days and shift hours]

GimaSport runs a 55-head Barudan embroidery floor alongside screen printing and DTF, producing high-volume decorated apparel for corporate, team, and retail customers in the Hartford area. We need an operator who already knows production embroidery. This is not a training position.

You must have all of these:

• 2+ years running commercial multi-head embroidery machines in a production shop
• Experience running several heads at once and keeping them productive all shift
• Hooping skill on caps, knits, wovens, and performance fabrics
• Ability to fix thread breaks, tension, bobbin, and pucker problems yourself, without step-by-step help
• Ability to read work orders and proofs and check placement before running a full quantity

Bonus: Barudan experience, ShopWorks OnSite, Wilcom or Hatch, promotional-products shop background, training other operators.

What you'll do: Run and monitor multiple heads, hoop and load jobs to spec, inspect work and pull defects, do daily machine maintenance, and update job progress in ShopWorks.

What we offer: steady full-time work, 401K matching, and a team that cares about getting it right the first time.

To apply: Answer these three questions in your application or email. We don't review applications without them.

1. How many years have you run multi-head embroidery machines, and how many heads at a time?
2. What machine brands have you run?
3. Describe a stitch problem you diagnosed and fixed (what was wrong, what you did).

In-house embroidery, screen printing and DTF production facility.