Production / Service Engineering / Manufacturing / Maintenance
Sewing Supervisor Job Purpose: 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 Requirements · Education: Vocational education · Experience: 2 years of relevant experience, with at least 1 year in supervisory positions, in a high SKU, labor intensive manufacturing environment · 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 Other Relevant Information: · Must be willing to travel to Asia to be trained for up to 3 - 6 months in the Company’s existing Factories