Design Room Manager

4 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Traut Personnel Full time

**If you enjoy working in a fast paced environment and you are an experienced, strong, technical Design Room Manager with excellent Managerial and Patternmaking skills, this could be for you.**
- **Job Description**_
- Responsible for managing a team of garment technologists, patternmakers, sample hands and sewing machinists.
- Ensure budgeted outputs are achieved.
- Ability to identify bottlenecks and put Corrective Action Plans in place and/or revise processes if the above are not achieved.
- Owning the sealing process and ensure that internal processes and quality standards are aligned with the Quality Division.
- Align with the Production and Merchandise Department to ensure that garments are costed and made in the most production friendly way.
- Responsible that all technical information required for garment production is correct and resolving any issues that may arise.
- Responsible for systems and procedures to be implemented as well as training and support to all staff.
- Work closely with the Merchandise Team to plan and prioritise the workflow through the department and ensure CPM dates are met.
- Dealing with and resolving all technical aspects relating to garments and critical path lead time.
- **Key Requirements**_
- Diploma in Garment Production and/or Design/ Clothing Management required.
- Min 5 years experience managing a Design Room, Sample Room and/or Patternmaking Division.
- Minimum 5 - 8 years management experience, managing teams over multiple disciplines to achieve a specific target.
- Excellent at driving individuals to master working as a team.
- Excellent Excel skills with ability to manipulate, create layouts, formulas, search functions and pivot tables.
- Strong technical pattern, garment construction and sewing knowledge.
- Good understanding of garment manufacturing processes as well as garment finishing processes.
- Good knowledge of Fabric Construction and end-use suitability.
- Knowledge of Gerber Patternmaking and Grading would be advantageous.
- Manufacturing experience would be advantageous.

Position located in Cape Town. Call Gabi Traut on 083 274 5193.


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