Title: Senior Manager - Cutting
Company Name: A Reputed Garments Company
Vacancy: 01
Age: At least 40 years
Job Location: Chattogram (Chattogram EPZ)
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
Experience in Woven and Outerwear garments will be preferred.
Lead, manage, and develop the cutting team, ensuring effective manpower planning, productivity, discipline, performance, and teamwork.
Develop, implement, and monitor daily and weekly cutting plans in line with the master production plan, shipment schedules, and sewing line requirements.
Oversee all pre-cutting activities, including fabric inspection, relaxation, shrinkage testing, fabric utilization analysis, lay planning, and marker approval.
Ensure continuous and timely feeding of accurately cut panels to sewing lines while maintaining production priorities and delivery commitments.
Analyse fabric consumption against approved/budgeted consumption and implement corrective actions to control excess consumption and fabric wastage.
Ensure proper fabric laying, cutting, numbering, bundling, and panel identification to prevent shade variation, size mix-ups, and bundle errors.
Establish and enforce cutting quality standards to ensure accurate panel cutting in accordance with approved patterns, specifications, size sets, and technical requirements.
Monitor cutting defects, lay-related issues, fabric faults, and panel discrepancies; conduct root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
Work closely with Quality, Pattern, Sample, CAD, and Technical teams to resolve cutting-related issues and continuously improve process quality.
Lead, develop, and evaluate the cutting team, including cutting supervisors, cutters, spreaders, helpers, and CAD operators, ensuring effective manpower utilisation and productivity.
Coordinate with Merchandising, Planning, CAD, Fabric Store, Quality, and Sewing departments to ensure smooth production flow and timely resolution of operational issues.
Participate in Pre-Production Meetings (PPM) and review technical requirements, critical operations, fabric characteristics, cutting specifications, and delivery expectations.
Monitor cutting productivity, manpower efficiency, fabric utilisation, wastage, re-cutting, and production output against established targets.
Ensure proper control and reconciliation of fabric issuance, consumption, balance fabric, cutting output, wastage, and rejected panels.