Quality Control Manager

Job Description:

Quality Control Manager

Womenswear

Location: Kolkata (on-site, with regular vendor unit visits)

Employment type: Full-time

Experience: 3–5 years in womenswear quality control

CTC: Rs. 3,00,000 – 4,00,000 per annum (Rs. 3–4 LPA)

Reports to: Founder

About UsUptownie is a womenswear brand. We design and produce in-house and through a vendor network. Our quality standard is what decides whether a customer keeps the garment or returns it.

The RoleWe are looking for a QC Manager who can hold the quality line end to end, from fabric in-warding to the final packed carton. Not a checker. Someone who owns the standard, builds the system, and runs the team that enforces it.

You will be the person who decides whether a lot ships or goes back.

Key ResponsibilitiesMeasurement and Fit• Read tech packs, patterns and grade rules, and verify that what the vendor sewed matches what we specified

• Own our measurement charts and points-of-measure across all categories: tops, dresses, bottoms, co-ords

• Check grading across the full size set, not just the base size. Catch grade breaks before they become returns

• Sign off on fit samples, PP samples and size sets before bulk cutting starts

In-line and Final Inspection• Set the inspection plan for every style: what gets checked, at what stage, at what sampling level (AQL)

• Run in-line checks at vendor units, catching defects at 200 pieces rather than at 2,000

• Conduct final random inspection before dispatch, with pass / hold / reject decisions and documented reasoning

• Inspect fabric at in-warding: 4-point system, GSM, width, shade continuity, shrinkage and colourfastness

Team Management• Lead and train the QC team: daily allocation, defect standards, and calibration so that two checkers grade the same garment the same way

• Build and maintain the defect library: what is a major, what is a minor, and what is an automatic reject

• Ensure the team measures correctly. Most bad QC is bad measuring

Vendor Management and Accountability• Issue clear, evidence-backed rejection reports with photographs, measurements, and spec versus actual

• Drive corrective action so that the same defect does not repeat in the next lot

• Support debit notes, rework decisions and RTV cases with proper documentation

Performance Measures• Quality and fit-related return rate

• Right-first-time percentage per vendor

• Rejection and rework cost

Requirements• 3–5 years in garment quality control, with genuine womenswear depth across both knits and wovens

• Able to pick up a pattern and assess whether it will sew up to spec

• Able to measure a garment correctly and unaided, without being told which points to take

• A working understanding of grading: not simply adding an inch, but how a grade actually distributes across a size set

• Experience running a team of checkers and holding them to a standard

• Comfortable with Excel and Google Sheets for measurement sheets, defect logs and inspection reports. We run on data, not on memory

• Able to write clearly enough that a vendor cannot argue with the report

Preferred• Experience with an external vendor or CMT network, not only a captive factory

• Exposure to washing, dyeing, printing and embroidery defects

• Diploma or degree in apparel or fashion technology (NIFT, ATDC or equivalent). Useful, but not mandatory where the hands-on experience is there

How to ApplyShare your CV along with your current CTC and notice period.