ob Title: Quality Manager – Socks Manufacturing
Experience: 5+ Years
Industry: Socks / Hosiery / Textile Manufacturing
Location: Gurgaon
Department: Quality
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Quality Manager with 5+ years of experience in socks/hosiery manufacturing or textile manufacturing to lead the end-to-end quality function. The candidate will be responsible for establishing quality standards, monitoring production quality, reducing defects and rejections, ensuring customer compliance, and driving continuous improvement across knitting, dyeing, finishing, and packing processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the complete quality assurance and quality control function for socks/hosiery manufacturing.
- Establish and implement quality standards, inspection procedures, SOPs, and quality control plans.
- Monitor quality at various stages including yarn, knitting, dyeing, finishing, stitching, linking, boarding, and packing.
- Conduct incoming, in-process, and final inspections and ensure adherence to defined specifications.
- Identify root causes of quality issues and implement CAPA, 5 Why, Fishbone, and other problem-solving techniques.
- Monitor and reduce defects, rejection, rework, customer complaints, and production losses.
- Ensure product quality against customer specifications, approved samples, technical specifications, and AQL requirements.
- Handle customer complaints, conduct root-cause analysis, and ensure timely corrective/preventive actions.
- Develop and monitor quality KPIs, including rejection rate, first-pass yield, rework, defect rate, customer complaints, and on-time closure of CAPA.
- Conduct regular process and product audits and ensure compliance with internal quality standards.
- Lead quality improvement projects using PDCA, Kaizen, 7 QC Tools, SPC, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Coordinate with Production, Maintenance, Merchandising, R&D, Purchase, Stores, and other departments to resolve quality issues.
- Train quality inspectors and production personnel on quality standards, inspection methods, defect identification, and process controls.
- Ensure proper maintenance of quality records, inspection reports, test reports, and compliance documentation.
- Support customer/vendor audits and ensure closure of audit observations within defined timelines.
- Monitor raw material and accessory quality, including yarn, elastic, dyes, labels, packaging materials, and other components.
- Ensure calibration and verification of measuring/testing equipment used in quality inspection.
Pay: ₹300,000.00 - ₹700,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
