Quality Assurance Manager -Epping at TFG (The Foschini Group)

Job Description
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining accurate quality control to ensure the on-time delivery of produced products to satisfy the retail customers.
• Ensuring that modified samples received are efficient for mass production and ease of manufacturing.
• Quality Assurance Testing Design: develop and validate complex new test methods and procedures for a garment or operations segment, incorporating new technologies and meeting changing organizational, customer, and/or regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the implementation of occupational health and safety policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Leadership and Direction: Lead and oversee the performance of quality managers to ensure adherence to quality control processes throughout all stages of production
• Research and integrate best practices in quality management and manufacturing processes and staying up-to-date on international standards relevant to retail manufacturing.
• Liaise between the Design Centre and manufacturing to resolve quality issues and ensure seamless integration of quality assurance and control measures into the manufacturing workflow.
• Responsible for auditing of sample sizes or 100% checks where applicable.
• Manage the Quality teams
• Providing training and Support to ensure best practices
• Maintaining records for quality control activities, inspection reports, defect rates and corrective measures.

Qualifications and Experience

• A National Diploma or Degree in Garment technology, Garment Quality, Product Manufacturing, or Production Management.
• 5 years’ experience in Clothing Manufacturing and Garment quality or a similar environment.

Skills 

• Excellent leadership and team management abilities
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality excellence
• Ability to manage conflict, positively and proactively find solutions to ongoing challenges
• Credible and trustworthy, a reliable team player

Behaviours:

• Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
• Forms, develops and leads a group of individuals toward the achievement of a common team objective
• Establishes and nurtures internal and external relationships in order to create robust, and mutually beneficial, partnerships
• Creates an environment that fosters and nurtures a culture of creativity which drives success
• Consistently makes timely, well-rounded and informed decisions
• Inspires, motivates and empowers individuals to go above and beyond for the benefit of the team and the organisation
• Takes accountability and ensures others are held to account on agreed upon performance targets
• Interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems
• Understands and navigates dynamics created by processes, systems, and people
• Effectively adjusts their behaviour, approach, and decision-making based on the situation
• Thinks and plans strategically, focusing on the long-term goals and objectives of the organisation

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