Weaving Manager / Senior Weaving Engineer

Strategic Leadership & Operational Governance
• Strategic Execution & Planning: Establish strategic goals, departmental budgets, and operational benchmarks for multi-shift weaving operations.
• Resource Optimization: Drive overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), capacity utilization, and workforce allocation across all shift structures.
• Performance Alignment: Translate high-level business plans into actionable departmental targets, aligning performance with plant-wide key performance indicators (KPIs).
Team Building & Organizational Development
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and build technical capabilities among Weaving Engineers, shift supervisors, technicians, and production personnel.
• Culture & Capability Building: Promote a high-performance, safety-first operational culture, addressing skill gaps through structured technical training and career planning.
• Workforce Governance: Oversee departmental labor planning, performance reviews, and succession management.
Continuous Improvement & Sustainable Yield Management
• Lean & Operational Excellence: Lead plant-wide transformations to minimize waste, downtime, and operational inefficiencies.
• Process Standardization: Establish robust root-cause problem-solving frameworks and audit standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure operational rigor.
• Sustainability Focus: Embed sustainable, circular manufacturing practices into daily processes in alignment with B Corp, Bluesign®, and Cradle to CradleTM standards.
Data Analytics, Technology & Quality Management
• Advanced Analytics: Oversee advanced technical analytics across loom efficiencies, stop-cause distributions, yarn breakage patterns, and fabric defects.
• Quality Assurance Alignment: Lead cross-departmental efforts with Quality Assurance to ensure fabric specs meet rigorous international brand requirements.
• Digital Transformation: Direct integration of smart manufacturing, MES/ERP tracking, and process automation to modernize weaving operations.
Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership
• Executive & Inter-Departmental Collaboration: Collaborate directly with Senior Executive Leadership, Production Planning, Maintenance, R&D, and Supply Chain to streamline scheduling, warp changes, and new product introductions (NPI).
• Supplier & Partner Relations: Manage strategic vendor and equipment supplier relationships for high-tech looms (air-jet/rapier), warp preparation systems, and spare parts inventory management.