To coordinate sewers and technical support team to produce garments efficiently and within the quality, quantity and schedule specifications of the customers.
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee the garment pre-production processes with the relevant technical support teams
Participate and support daily improvement meetings
Liaise with technical support teams to prepare production lines for production
Manage sewers to maintain production quality, efficiency and outputs
Drive for production standardization across Factory and Company
Coordinate improvements with Garment Technicians and Mechanic
Provide balance of positive motivation and discipline to achieve output targets
Continuously balance line to achieve efficiency targets
Continuously monitor sewing production and resolve production problems
Create safe and conducive work environment
Provide managerial leadership to the sewers
Understand and live by the Company’s core values
Take accountability for growing and continuously improving oneself
Job Requirement
Education: Vocational education
1st Degree in garment engineering or diploma and 1 year experience
Language skills: Written and spoken English and Amharic a must, local dialects a plus
Functional Requirements:
Production management techniques through the use of 4M (man, machine, methods, materials)
Lean manufacturing concepts and tools
Knowledge and use of problem solving tools
Understanding of basic garment quality standards, a plus
Has the drive to meet or exceed a standard of excellence on an ongoing basis
Has the drive to lead, engage and enable teams and coach individual team members
Has the drive to systematically seek out information about things and issues to resolve problems