Job Purpose

To lead and manage the Quality Assurance function for the shirt manufacturing division, ensuring that all garments meet customer specifications, approved samples, quality standards, regulatory requirements, and company quality objectives.

The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for establishing effective quality systems, controlling defects throughout the manufacturing process, reducing rejection and rework, driving root-cause corrective actions, and developing a robust quality culture across the factory.

Key Responsibilities

1. Quality Management System
- Develop, implement, and maintain quality assurance systems for shirt manufacturing.
- Establish quality standards, procedures, inspection criteria, and quality checkpoints.
- Ensure compliance with customer requirements, approved samples, specifications, and quality manuals.
- Review and improve quality procedures based on production performance and customer feedback.
- Maintain proper quality documentation and records.

2. Incoming Material Quality
- Establish quality standards for incoming fabrics, trims,



accessories, labels, buttons, zippers, threads, and packing materials.
- Coordinate with Fabric Store, Purchase, Merchandising, and suppliers to control material quality.
- Ensure fabric inspection is carried out according to approved standards.
- Monitor fabric defects, shade variation, GSM, width, shrinkage, colorfastness, and other relevant parameters.
- Ensure defective or non-conforming materials are properly identified, segregated, and controlled.

3. Cutting Quality Control
- Ensure cut panels meet approved patterns, measurements, and specifications.
- Monitor fabric relaxation, spreading, marker accuracy, numbering, bundling, and panel matching.
- Control defects related to fabric shading, panel mismatch, incorrect cutting, and grain direction.
- Ensure proper handling of checks, stripes, plaids, and other pattern-matching requirements.

4. Sewing Quality Assurance
- Establish quali

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