Key Responsibilities :-
Quality Assurance – Printing
- Monitor and ensure quality at all stages of the printing process.
- Check print placement, artwork, colour matching, shade, sharpness, registration and overall appearance.
- Conduct first-piece and inline inspections and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
- Coordinate with production and printing teams to resolve quality issues.
- Ensure printing is carried out as per approved samples, buyer specifications and tech packs.
- Monitor defects such as bleeding, smudging, cracking, uneven printing, misregistration and colour variation.
Quality Assurance – Dyeing
- Monitor dyeing processes to ensure consistent shade, colour fastness and fabric quality.
- Check lab dips and bulk dyeing against approved standards.
- Monitor parameters such as temperature, pH, time, chemical dosing and process controls.
- Ensure proper shade matching and batch-to-batch consistency.
- Identify and investigate dyeing-related defects and coordinate corrective actions.
- Maintain records of dyeing quality and process performance.
Laboratory & Testing
- Manage day-to-day testing activities in the fabric/garment testing laboratory.
- Conduct or coordinate tests for:
- Colour fastness
- Washing fastness
- Rubbing fastness
- Perspiration fastness
- Shrinkage
- GSM
- Fabric composition
- Dimensional stability
- Pilling
- Tensile/tear strength
- Seam/slippage and other applicable tests
- Ensure testing is conducted according to buyer requirements and applicable testing standards.
- Maintain testing reports, records, calibration documents and test results.
- Coordinate with external laboratories whenever specialized or third-party testing is required.
- Ensure laboratory equipment is properly maintained and calibrated.
Quality Control & Compliance
- Develop and implement QA/QC procedures for Printing, Dyeing and Lab operations.
- Ensure compliance with buyer quality manuals, approved standards and internal quality policies.
- Conduct regular process audits and quality inspections.
- Analyse recurring defects and implement preventive and corrective actions.
- Prepare quality reports and communicate major quality issues to management.
- Maintain proper documentation and traceability of quality records.
- Support buyer inspections, audits and factory quality assessments.
- Ensure adherence to applicable chemical and product safety.
