Production Quality Team Leader

If you were our Manufacturing Production Quality Team Leader, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• You lead and motivate the team, including but not limited to, providing coaching, training, communicating objectives, and planning efficient distribution of work with an open and positive culture
• You ensure that Quality Control Inspectors have the proper training, information, and equipment
• You collaborate with Production to manage the prioritization and workflow of the production quality control areas
• You are the first point of contact for production quality issues and make assessment of product acceptability
• You support Quality Control Inspectors to resolve difficult quality issues in production lines
• You coordinate rejected AQL lots and perform documentation of CAPA plans
• You drive root cause analysis of quality defects with production teams
• You monitor line performance to drive prioritization of quality improvement in production lines
• You drive continuous improvement of quality control processes and engage with production teams to drive quality improvements
• You collaborate with Quality Control Supervisor to provide performance feedback
• You manage time, attendance, and vacation for production quality control inspectors
• You are able to perform quality control inspection and backfill as needed

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

• Create and enable access to standardized reference documents
• Create standardized work instructions
• Develop processes for people scheduling and workflow visibility
• Coach, mentor and develop new & existing team members
• Partner with AQL on alignment and shared knowledge
• Support Quality process mapping initiatives
• Analyze system related data to visualize and prioritize critical-to-quality areas.

Are you our next Manufacturing Production Quality Team Leader?

• You have 2+ years of experience in the apparel factory environment
• You have knowledge of garment industry best practices
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You have intermediate computer knowledge, especially Microsoft Word and Excel
• You have high attention to details
• You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
• You have the ability to work well independently and efficiently without direct supervision and to work effectively as a team
• You have excellent organizational skills and flexibility
• You are excited by knowledge transfer and training
• You have strong interpersonal skills with ability to deal with difficult situation with tact and professionalism
•  You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
• You are able to balance autonomy and collaboration
• You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment
• You have basic knowledge of a spoken second language (asset)
• You have knowledge of Arc’teryx’s unique products (asset)
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it (asset)
• You thrive in a fast-paced work environment and have the ability to remain adaptable, flexible and calm while receiving and giving feedback
• You “think out of the box”: you have this capacity to give your feedback and to propose new ideas
• You arrange the day to day work, guide and review the work completed and mentor and share knowledge with the QC Inspectors in the assigned production lines