Production Assistant / Administrative Assistant

About the Company
ETC Trade, LLC is an Orange County, California, based Personalized Gifts Store that has both a nation-wide, as well as an international customer base. Our personalized products cater to customers looking for gift ideas in the areas of weddings, birthdays, holidays and other celebrative ocassions. Likewise, we cater to institutions as we offer an extensive line of corporate and promotional gifts and awards.

About this Job Opportunity
We're looking for individuals who are interested in long-range career growth and have the desire and willingness to wear many hats at once. We offer a unique environment that fosters individual growth and rewards performance. Everyone here performs multiple roles and gets exposed to a variety of challenges. You'll work side-by-side with people you can trust and respect.

Help us be a leader in the retail industry by acting as one of our Production/Administrative Assistants who supports our personalized gift production operations. As one of our assistants, you will find yourself doing some or all of these activities: Organizing production work; preparing work site; maintaining work supplies and materials; returning items to storage inventory; supporting production processes, such as performing laser engraving or embroidery operations; maintaining work records; updating job knowledge base; writing customer support emails to customers; updating our products database on the computer; all of which will, as a result, help us accomplish organization production goals.  This position cannot get any more interesting because you will grow tremendously in useful knowledge and experience. 

We offer generous and extensive training to the right candidate.  For the right person, this position can entail future promotion to management or supervision.

Qualifications 
No experience is required for this position; however, having as many of the qualifications listed below as possible can give a candidate an extra edge:

• Ability to multi-task among several concurrent jobs. Our work environment can get really hectic during our peak holiday seasons.

• Basic ability to use a personal computer and familiarity with MS Word, MS Excel.

• Basic typewriting skills (touch typing desired but not required).

• Ability to write clear English text with good spelling.

• Ability to answer the telephone, and willingness to learn customer-service oriented skills.

• Ability or willingness to learn how to align text and other graphic elements for engraving by using ruler and eraseable ink markers (we provide the training).

• Willingness to learn or know already how to maintain physical inventory.
• Willingness to keep equipment clean to ensure smooth office operation.
• Willingness to learn how to pick, pack, ship, and perform inventory control.

• You must have a High School Diploma or equivalent experience.

• Familiarity with Corel and/or Photoshop graphics applications would be highly desirable but is not required

*We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin. Applicants are required to confidentially self-identify when applying. Local applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. Employment contingent upon successful completion of background investigation. Smoke-free workplace. Drug-free work environment. Pre-employment drug screening may be required at employer's sole discretion. Our company is an environmentally-responsible business. All resumes are held in confidence. No recruiters or agencies need apply without a previously signed contract. No faxes please. Principals only. Relocation costs not covered by employer. Must be eligible to work in this country. Unable to sponsor or transfer H1 visas at this time.



production and administrative assistant, warehouse assistant