Manager - Sample, CAD & Technical

Job Responsibilities

• Communicating with merchandiser and production personnel
• Coordinate with Sales Department to maintain their Sample inventory and process the receipt of sample documents for foreign country.
• Collecting Sketch & Spec from Marketing department
• Preparing the Tech File foe Sample Department
• Planning the allocation of the sample room's staff within the section.
• Ensuring that fabrics, thread and trimmings are available to produce a sample garment.
• Making a daily sample production plan.
• Setting daily production targets for each sample operator.
• Recording daily output of each sample man and total sample room's output.
• Understanding of manufacturing process and experience in the use of industrial equipment.
• Identifying and applying the most suitable processes to solve manufacturing problems.
• Ensuring that good working practice is applied when using cutting, making and pressing equipment and a safe working environment is maintained.
• Maintaining records of pattern sets.
• Maintaining buyer's supplier's and manufacturer's directories.
• Monitor and manage a sample room of sewing workers, garment technicians to ensure all samples are made under customers' requirements and meet the schedule.
• Responsible to evaluate and approve all samples from development, fitting, adjustment and approval.
• Provide technical advice in the whole merchandising and production cycle, deliver customers' requirements to production parties on pre-production meeting.
• Handling paper pattern and adjustment.
• Dealing with foreign buyers and designers for new sample development.
• Serving large quantities of new style sample, able to serve multi-customers' on different standard.
• Ensuring Technical, design, pattern or equivalent qualification in all kind of fashions.
• Providing technical advice and support to R&D and Production Department on the industrialization of new design & fitting approval for newly developed styles & during bulk production (to co-operate with R&D team & Factory).
• Providing technical advice and support in pattern making, fitting and garment construction before sample delivery (perform sample inspection).
• Ensuring Establishment and application the standard of fit and construction from concept through to bulk production.
• Ensuring pre-production sample are developed according to the established fit & quality standards as well as complying with cost specification.
• Communicating & elaborating technical spec requirement to internal team & contractors.
• Receiving into inventory any returns and QC before reshipment of Sample room product.
• Maintaining accurate inventory in sample room.
• Creating a stock transfer and ship any product being sent back to Dallas.
• Receiving and process any Consignment orders. Create invoices for product not returned.