Category: Garments/Textile
Senior Production Engineer
Target Sourcing Services L.L.C.
Vacancy
Not specific
Job Context
- Target is one of the Global Fortune 500, one of America`s leading retailers.
- Target Sourcing Services (TSS) organization is located in various countries throughout the world. TSS connects Target`s merchandise buyers and external vendors to turn ideas into on-trend merchandise. TSS also serves a major function in ensuring that vendors meet Target`s strict standards for quality, sustainability, and safe working conditions. We are looking for someone who is dynamic, adaptable, industry expert for our Chattogram office.
Job Responsibilities
- PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- 1. Key Competency Expectation
- Product and Technical knowledge
- Category level product knowledge; understand the guest expectation/brand expression through product standards, specification, approved samples and testing requirement/protocols to support field operations
- Ensure Target products are good & healthy, safe to use, guest friendly and durable & functional through product lifecycle
- Knowledge of product and manufacturing process risk assessment and mitigation to support product development - Identify and validate key quality and capability callouts (e.g., manufacturing variability, critical to quality, manufacturability to scale) from product development stage through a robust MCP
- Deep understanding of capacity analysis - annually as well as during production readiness to ensure appropriate capacities are allocated, both holistically and at a program level.
- Ability to understand diverse and ever evolving manufacturing processes
- Understand process management - able to determine the critical processes to quality and its controls to prevent or mitigate potential issues/risks
- Knowledge of tools from Lean/6 Sigma/TOC/SPC to assess factory's performance to support OBSD strategy
- Technical ability to assess and resolve product and inspection issues
- Build one's own technical expertise in a structured and systematic way
- Understanding of cost engineering to support factory's drive towards efficiency and right first time quality
- Quality Strategy and Management
- Understand and be able to assess the effectiveness of a factory's preventive QMS and its sustainability, across diverse manufacturing processes
- Drive continuous improvement of a factory's quality management system, shifting focus from detection to prevention.
- Plan for quality through preventive product risk mitigation, factory capability assessment and capacity validation prior to production.
- Strategic overview of the factory's performance in order to prioritize and identify areas of opportunity to drive elevation
- Evaluate the health of the factory's QMS
- Support 3rd party escalation, disposition and CAPA reviews for continuous improvement
- Understand the guest expectation through voice of the guest
- Support ME initiatives focusing on efficiency and right first time quality
- Data/Reporting and Analytical thinking
- Ability to review data and conduct statistical analysis
- Leverage data to identify opportunities for calibration, continuous improvement and problem-solving
- Drive cost of poor quality reduction with a focus on greater efficiency and right first time quality
- Understand industry and share business intelligence with CFT teams when needed
- Engage in proactive sourcing and category management from technical, quality and engineering perspective to drive robust business placement decisions
- Extensive use of quantifiable data and KPIs in decision-making; to provide performance feedback to vendors/factories.
- 2. Communication/CFT Collaboration/Training
- Share lessons learned in quality planning activities and core processes
- Support calibration activities for 3rd parties, vendor and factories
- Act as technical liaison between HQ PSQA, Vendor/Factory partners and cross functional teams
- Ensure transparency and adherence to escalation process when required
- Provide ongoing support to PSQA HQ for continuous improvement, issue resolution and problem solving
- Successfully navigate through tough choices and be able to articulate a strong point of view both internally and externally - to leaders, peers, team members and vendor/factories.
- Engage in factory matrix optimization and influence business decisions through CFT collaboration based on business needs and quality performance
- Steer decision effectiveness and efficiency; take smart risk based on facts, figures and guest insights through critical thinking
- Provide expertise to validate CFT's business decision and increase supply matrix visibility through factory assessment
- Engage in new vendor/factory vetting and exploration process that supports sourcing decision-making and long-range business plan
- 3. Operational Excellence and Brand Reputation
- Adapt to change and adhere to Target strategy, direction and business goals
- Continually focus on and demonstrate commitment to concepts of value creation through COQ/Lean/Six Sigma tools/efficiency
- Ensure transparency and adherence to escalation process when required
- Demonstrate the highest level of ethics; make ethics a mantra for TGT and supply chain
- Escalate critical issues concerning ethics, through the proper channels
- Provide ongoing support to PSQA HQ and PSQA QMS Team for continuous improvement, issue resolution and problem solving
- Support HQ through product investigations and activate on guest data analysis appropriately.
- Investigate quality issues, ensure effectiveness of CAPA and validate vendor/factories are driving toward continuous improvement.
Employment Status
Full-time
Workplace
- Work from home, Work at office
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor in Engineering (BEngg) in Industrial Eng & Production
- Preferred Professional Certification: Six Sigma,Quality Management System,Lean Management
Experience Requirements
- 6 to 12 year(s)
- The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
Buying House, Garments
Additional Requirements
- Experience in retail purchasing operations or support
Job Location
Chattogram
Job Source
Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Job Summary
Published on: 7 Apr 2021
Vacancy: Not specific
Employment Status: Full-time
Experience: 6 to 12 year(s)
Job Location: Chattogram
Application Deadline: 15 Apr 2021
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