QUALITY CONTROL: WHERE ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS A MUST.
Under the direction of the Production Supervisor and Lead, this role supports quality control for high post production garments. You will inspect finished product, communicate when garments need to be corrected or redone, and help ensure orders are accurate, clean, counted, folded, labeled, boxed, and ready for shipping.
This is a hands-on production role for someone who has a strong eye for detail, takes pride in quality, and likes steady, team-based work. Sewing machine experience is helpful for sewing labels on garments as needed.
Location: Detroit Lakes, MN. This is a full-time, onsite role.
Shift: Day Shift: Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM.
Night Shift: Monday-Thursday, 4:00 PM-2:00 AM.
Pay: Starting wage: $15.00-$17.00 per hour, based on shift.
Growth: This role can build skills in garment inspection, order accuracy, quality standards, shipping preparation, sewing support, and production workflow. Advancement opportunities vary by department and business need.
Lakeshirts offers a fun, creative, and team-driven culture where employees are empowered to grow and thrive. We provide competitive pay with daily pay options, comprehensive insurance benefits, up to 22 paid days off in the first year, profit sharing, a 401(k) plan, a relaxed dress code, unique perks like an onsite cafeteria and more. Join us and be part of a company that values teamwork, innovation, and making work better in a t-shirt.
At Lakeshirts, we believe in making work as awesome as the apparel we create. We are not just a t-shirt company; we are also a hat, sticker, sock, and so-much-more company. Creativity meets culture here, and teamwork is part of the day-to-day. Better in a t-shirt. And work should be too.
Employee must be able to read, write, understand, and follow work instructions, order details, quality standards, and safety procedures. This role requires attention to detail, adaptability, problem solving, communication, dependability, judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
CONTINUOUSLY: Stand, reach, lift and carry materials weighing 10-50 lbs., and reach at, above, or below shoulder height while performing production tasks.
FREQUENTLY: Push, pull, twist, and move materials while sorting, folding, boxing, and organizing garments.
OCCASIONALLY: Walk, sit, balance, and bend as needed during the shift.
NEVER: Climb or crawl as an essential function of the role.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, skills, effort, or working conditions. Responsibilities may change based on business needs. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Lakeshirts is a custom apparel decorating company that started in our owner’s parents’ basement in 1984. We have since grown to an $200 million+ company in a 275,000 square foot facility. Our production floor includes 48 automatic screenprint presses, 32 multi-head embroidery machines, six 60-foot laser appliqué bridges, three sublimation presses, and a number of dogs running around the place.
Lakeshirts sales continue to grow, as does its profitability, due to the hard work and continuous improvement efforts of its 500+ employees and over 60 nation-wide reps.
Lakeshirts provides decorated apparel to thousands of customers in the resort and college markets, being a preferred choice to customers based on its breadth of great designs, great garments in its inventory, and reliable and responsive delivery.
With more than 40 artists on our staff, we create thousands of pieces of art each year, giving each customer a unique look. We have over 100 bodystyles in stock, and each one comes in a multitude of colors, totaling more than 1,000,000 pieces in our inventory.
This is all done in a culture that reflects respect, community, and fun. Our culture is second-to-none and must be experienced to be truly understood. If you happen to be in the lakes area, we invite you to stop in and see for yourself. We always enjoy visits, and we’re proud to show off the community that we’ve called “home” for all of our lives. And if you happen to bring along a Milk Bone or two with you, we know you’ll make some very quick and deep friendships.
Life’s Better in a T-shirt
