Production and Planning Officer

APEIRON

APEIRON invites applications from the interested and eligible candidates, who are reliable, accountable, have the ability to deliver results with the highest level of integrity and who value diversity.

Details / requirements:

We are a women led Nepali NGO working for a gender equal society through four main areas of interventions; Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response, Awareness and Education, Income Generation and Institutional Collaboration. It started out as an international NGO with the headquarters in Italy on 2004 and evolved into a national NGO in 2013.

We fights against prejudice, violence, and inequalities so that women develop skills necessary to support themselves and their families. We help women confront uphill battles: gender based violence, restricted access to and control over resources, low literacy, struggles to obtain citizenship documents, and other social and economic challenges.

In 2016, We established a sister organization named as Production Unit. It  is a company not distributing profit. The major activities are producing garment products, handicrafts, and pickles, knitting, tailoring, which are sold at local market, INGOs, Hospitals, Government Organizations and International Market. It is established with an objective to support its parent organization (NGO) projects, thus contributes all its profit from various activities to its parent organization.

Moreover to fulfill its objective and look after daily operation, we looking for the interested and eligible candidate for below mentioned job position.

Production & Planning Officer

Job Description

The Production and Planning Officer is responsible to handle all the production related task that includes purchasing raw materials, sample collection, order handling, preparing production card, stock management, quality control, record (order, stock of raw materials and finished products) management, determine progress of work, shipment schedule, supervise work production staffs such tailor etc and handle all other daily operational activities.

The Production and Planning Officer should be well-versed in production procedures and ways to optimize them. The goal is to ensure the smooth and cost-efficient and timely flow of our production operations.

Purchase

- Should have sound knowledge of different fabrics and should be able to find appropriate market for its purchase

- Should be able to compare and check the quality and price of fabrics

- Should be able to chose and decide best fabric (based on thickness, color, quality) as per the type of product

- Should be able summarize the fabric details (categorize) and share with other team members via drive shared documents

Production

- Should be able to make overall production plan with regard to time and cost

- Should be able to identify the production order and prepare production plan accordingly

- Should be able to create a detail production cards

- Should be able to follow up the production process and assure quality of the product

- Should assure the timely completion of production process

- Should monitor and supervise the producers work at production site

- Should be able to manage relationship with collaborating partners of the APEIRON Nepal company

- Should be able to check and verify the quality of the products ordered to collaborating partners

- Should have capability to identify and suggest new product

- Should keep track up upcoming orders and prepare production plan accordingly

- Should coordinate overall production workflow for all the products

- Should be able to determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand

Inventory

- Should be able to keep records of all the orders that is local or international

- Should maintain inventory of raw materials purchased

- Should maintain record of product produced by the producers

- Should be able to keep record of orders dispatched

- And any other inventory maintenance related task

Supervision and Monitoring

- Should supervise and monitor the day to day task of producers

- Should maintain record of producers time sheet

- Should ensure the timely completion of production work

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED

- Should have completed Bachelors Degree in any field with Fashion Designing related courses

- Must have minimum 2 years of relevant experience

- Should be familiar with garment sector

- Should have market knowledge of garments

- Must be able to carry out cost calculations and prepare production cards

- Should be proficient in using Microsoft Office package (especially Excel)

- Should be able to use emails

- Should be able to take clear pictures and short videos especially of samples and product

- Should be proficient in English (both spoken and written)

Other Competencies

- Should coordinate with other professionals that will be chosen to create the catalog (photographer + designers) based on the instructions sent from Italy

-   In case organization gets approval to export its product, she/he should be able to look after all the papers related to exportations (shipment/custom etc)

Qualified and Interested candidates are requested to send us their updated CV along with their expected salary at ape.vacancy@gmail.com mentioning the Job position applied for on the subject line on or before 29 August, 2017.

Overview

Category Development and Project
Openings 1
Experience 2+ years
Education Please check vacancy details
Posted Date 15 Aug, 2017
Apply Before 29 Aug, 2017
City Kathmandu