University of Lincoln Careers & Employability

A manufacturing business established in 1979, the company now has a range of different divisions including:

• J&A – Garment Decoration
(manufacture of screen printed, digital and embroidered badges and transfers and other garment decoration products)
www.ja-int.co.uk

• I D Workwear
(wholesale supply of casual workwear garments)
www.idworkwear.co.uk

• Workwear2U
(retail shop and sale of decorated casual workwear garments to end users)

• NameBadges International
(manufacture and supply of pin-on name badges)
www.namebadgesinternational.co.uk

• Creative transfer solutions
(sale of DIY transfer systems)
www.creativetransfers.co.uk

• Imatel
(French Subsidiary, selling the above products into France).
www.ja-int.fr

Number of Employees: 113 overall (June 2011)

• Size of the company.
• The people.
• New offices offering a nice, clean working environment.
• Staff take pride in workplace – especially evident with the cleanliness of the production areas.
• Five Star Health and Safety award
• Uniforms are casual.
• Forward thinking company. The company is always looking for new markets and developments.
• On-going investment in IT and infrastructure.
• Potential to develop new areas and to experience all aspects of the organisation.
• No redundancies as a result of economic climate.
• Cross-skilling – experiencing all aspects. The company now employs ‘floaters’, who are competent in all aspects of the business.

Range of roles including:

• Production
• IT
• Purchasing
• Sales (UK and with languages)
• Marketing
• Accounts
• Health and Safety
• Quality and Environmental
• Stores
• Dispatch
• Human Resources
• Administration

In addition there are the new and developing divisions which may need Business Managers to lead their development and establishment – dependent on growth.

Graduate opportunities would be as above.

As the company is small, there will not be an annual graduate recruitment cycle. Vacancies will be advertised on company website, local press and the university.

There may be more potential for graduate internships, annual contracts to work on specific projects, for example the company recently took on a University of Lincoln IT graduate to work as a webmaster for a yearlong project (who has since been employed). Other such opportunities may arise with company development.

Any work experience/ voluntary opportunities would depend on what they were being taken on to achieve and do as it would have to fit into the company’s plans and projects.

It is recognised that graduates have a lot to offer and recently had a very good experience of graduates in recruiting for the webmaster position – well presented and nicely spoken.

However, in such a small company with people who have worked their way up from lower technical positions, the graduates would have to be sensitive in their approach. Some workers have pre-conceived ideas of graduates and may feel aggrieved if a graduate was to leap frog ahead of them into a position after they have worked for the company since leaving school for example.

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