QA Manager (Apparel)

Job Description:
• Manage tasks and team to meet clients’ requirement. To align the local PC Quality Strategy with the Global Quality Strategy and ensure local implementation of both.
• To manage the raw material control, color matching and testing facilities to ensure that only compliant raw material is used in production.
• To escalate deviations in raw material quality to the relevant internal departments.
• To manage the hourly and daily quality inspections in-line, to ensure manufacturing is compliant with the Article Description and Quality Manual requirements.
• To ensure that the quality requirements of the AD are interpreted and actioned correctly by production supervisors and operators as well as those responsible for quality inspections.
• To ensure that the Roving Quality Control System, End Control inspections (or batch control where appropriate) and AQL finished goods inspections are carried out correctly.
• Using daily quality meetings, to ensure that by reviewing the quality data, action is taken to correct quality problems and that the resources of the quality team are used in the areas of most need.
• To make use of Root Cause Analysis when managing investigations into internal or customer/consumer quality complaints and secure corrective actions, and so preventing recurrence.
• Ensure that the quality targets as established in the Production Centre, are known by all concerned and achieved.
• To set quality targets for production operators and ensure compliance to those targets through regular assessment and review.
• To manage the quality inspectors in all areas.
• To manage weekly fitting sessions of production garments to ensure that not only does production comply with quality and technical requirements but also that the fitting standard of production is maintained when compared to the approved sample or sealed garment.
• To assure and verify technical and quality compliance at the introduction of new lines, before bulk production starts.