Garment Technician

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HR Professional || Global Talent Acquisition Specialist || Focused on APAC Region & Africa

Kontoor Brands, Inc. (NYSE: KTB) is a global lifestyle apparel company with a portfolio of some of the world's most iconic denim brands: Wrangler and Lee. We design, manufacture, and distribute superior high-quality products that look good, fit right, and are crafted with sensitivity to our planet to give people around the world the freedom and confidence to express themselves.

Our global community fosters a culture of integrity, collaboration, performance, and entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for inclusive, humble, creative, and forward-looking employees with a passion for creating innovative apparel products, accessories, and solutions that are both meaningful and purposeful for consumers and employees.

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

Provide advice and necessary training and provide technical knowledge how support to garment makers and laundries to procedure conformed products for LWR.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Evaluate Vendors facilities, capability based on new development before proceeding the sample.
• Guide and monitor technical team to maintain standard operation procedure.
• Closely follow up with merchandiser for any new development / samples and review if have any risk factor and required product safety specially for youth wear.
• Gauge and track laundry processes on chemicals application, liquor ratio, washer temperature, cycle length, in compliance to was recipe set.
• Coordinate with Wash Technician to educate and implement the shade band/1st batch procedure to makers and laundries to set preview and scan through submits to ensure matching requirement before submits for approval.
• Provide makers technical team the technical training and support to introduce and reshuffle/ updating sample handling SOP and time frame.
• Review and provide comments on performance appraisal of subordinates.
• Support communications and facilitate of issues resolution during bulk production with merchandising and quality management.

N.B: Graduation in Textile/Apparel is preferred, along with experience in both factory and buying/trading house settings. Solid knowledge of Denim and Non-Denim products is a strong advantage.

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

Skills:

• Knowledge on garment fitting, pattern, relevant software etc.
• Self motivated and well disciplined to follow LWR SOP.
• Able to work independently and act proactively.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access).
• Able to communicate effectively with internal functions, vendor's Merchandising team.
• Confident with "Can do" attitude.
• Language Proficiency: English and local language fluency in both oral and writing.

Competency required:

• Interpersonal Skills
• Diversity
• Professionalism
• Change Management
• Team Player
• Job Knowledge
• Customer Focus

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Graduate from a reputed university, preferably with a background in Textile/Apparel or from a specialized textile university.

Include but not limited to:

• Frequency of Travel: 30%
• External communication required: 70%
• Major Challenges for this role: To ensure that processes are working not only in paper. To ensure that team members are diligently following the procedures, no "short-cut" is there and records are "straight and clean" at any point in time.

Why Kontoor Brands?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to fit your lifestyle, crafted with the same care as our products.

When our employees are healthy, secure, and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family's needs, both now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing. We also provide flexible work arrangement options to help eligible employees achieve a healthy balance between their professional and personal lives.

At Kontoor, we believe that D&I is a key enabler to a culture that empowers us to work with passion and confidence, shaping our brand and future.

• Create a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.
• Ensure an equitable environment that attracts & promotes diverse workforce.
• Foster inclusivity, ensuring employees feel they can bring their whole selves to work.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Other

Industries

Retail Apparel and Fashion

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