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Centric Brands

Designs and markets licensed apparel brands

Quality Assurance Manager - QA

Quality Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKarachi, Karachi City, Sindh, PakistanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • The candidate must have 10–15 years of working experience in the garment field.
  • The candidate must have sufficient technical ability in apparel and strong knowledge of inspection processes and requirements.
  • The candidate must understand garment types, including construction, fabrication, trims, print techniques, washing technology, and children’s safety requirements.
  • The candidate must have knowledge of garment manufacturing processes and factory quality-control systems.
  • The candidate must hold a bachelor's degree.
  • The candidate must be able to read and write English well enough to understand documents and issue reports.
  • The candidate must have basic computer skills and be able to use Microsoft Office, Excel, and Outlook.
  • The candidate must be fluent in English and Urdu.

Responsibilities

  • Use inspection activities to ensure consistent production quality, sufficient order quantities, and on-time delivery.
  • Take ownership of implemented standard operating procedures and ensure effective factory-level practices.
  • Report quality performance regularly to senior management and escalate critical issues.
  • Uphold customer codes of conduct covering compliance, sustainability, and worker safety.
  • Provide training on new techniques, standard operating procedures, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure implementation of Kaizen and Lean methodologies; cascade company standard-operating-procedure training to factory levels and enforce disciplinary measures for violations.
  • Organize regular quality-assurance staff training, knowledge-sharing through a defect library, and Quality Month presentations.
  • Conduct style risk assessments during development and highlight callouts before fit samples.
  • Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures for inspections, packaging, storage, and quality-assurance reporting.
  • Prevent garment defects by identifying system, personnel, and machine errors, linking them to error codes, and providing corrective solutions.
  • Maintain brand files, technical documents, and audit records in organized folders.
  • Conduct technical audits and provide corrective action plans.
  • Enforce children’s product safety requirements, including needle policy, trims, and metal detection; monitor safety protocols for children’s products, prints, embroidery, and embellishments.
  • Oversee product-safety recordkeeping and compliance.
  • Investigate long-stored goods for risks such as mold or color migration, maintain secure storage, and conduct pre-inspections before quality-assurance review.
  • Coordinate and guide factory Brand Tech Managers and Non-FCQA teams to strengthen standard operating procedures, reporting, and monitoring.
  • Organize weekly inspection bookings with company quality assurance for PPM, pilot, inline, pre-final, and final inspections.
  • Ensure packaging best practices, including size-wise procedures, pressing and packing approval samples, trim boards, and process displays.
  • Supervise corrective-action-plan development for findings and follow up on implementation.
  • Integrate TNA-driven quality checks into production schedules.
  • Serve as the primary contact for company and buyer quality-assurance teams and align quality expectations.
  • Guide customer auditors, demonstrate standard-operating-procedure compliance, and address concerns.
  • Maintain readiness for customer, third-party, and internal audits.
  • Prepare corrective action plans following audit or visitor findings and share updates with top management.
  • Ensure factories meet company evaluation metrics, including key performance indicators and standard-operating-procedure points.
  • Develop and implement product-quality standards according to buyer and international norms.
  • Review and approve all sample stages, including development, prototype, fit, and pre-production.
  • Conduct pre-production meetings and ensure technical and quality parameters are understood.
  • Verify inline and final inspections and authorize shipment release only after compliance.
  • Ensure laboratory, chemical, and physical testing, including restricted-substance-list testing, is completed and documented.
  • Review technical files, including technical packs, bills of materials, and sewing instructions, for accuracy.
  • Analyze recurring defects, maintain defect-trend reports, and establish preventive actions.
  • Maintain quality-assurance performance and factory-evaluation key performance indicators.
  • Organize charts, job descriptions, and responsibilities for quality-assurance roles.
  • Implement continuous-improvement programs using Kaizen, Lean, and root-cause analysis.
  • Travel as required.

About the Company

Centric Brands

Designs and markets licensed apparel brands

Centric Brands coordinates design, development, sourcing, marketing, and distribution for a broad lineup of apparel, accessories, beauty, and entertainment products. It operates end-to-end from product creation to retail and digital commerce, offering licensed and owned brands across kids, men’s, and women’s categories through mass retailers, specialty stores, department stores, and online. The company differentiates itself with a large catalog of licensed names (e.g., Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Kate Spade, Disney, Marvel) plus owned labels and joint ventures, supported by global sourcing and brand-building expertise. Its goal is to help partners grow by delivering comprehensive brand-building and distribution capabilities while ensuring high-quality products and positive social impact in communities where it works.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2018

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