What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Coordinator position at Hybrid Apparel?
Hybrid’s humble beginnings started in 1997 in the back of a print shop designing, selling, and printing tee shirts. Today, Hybrid is a global apparel industry powerhouse in brand and licensing management. Hybrid provides its expertise and fully vertical operations capability – design, merchandising, development, sourcing, production, and distribution – to a broad suite of branded, licensed, generic, and private label partners. Hybrid’s full-service apparel design and manufacturing expertise extends across the apparel category, including knits, woven tops, bottoms, tees, and accessories.
As our organization has evolved, so has our philosophy of doing business. We have made concerted efforts to remove ourselves from the antiquated approach of other apparel manufacturers and doing things differently has been our focus. We are building a company ethos that breeds innovation, collaboration, integrity, and excellence in customer service.
What is my role?
Coordinate with different departments and vendors from development stage all the way to production process to ensure timely delivery and quality shipments of finished product.
What You'll Do
- Attend handover meetings
- Managing bulk projection placed with the factories; provided bulk yardage to proceed production with, working with factory on timeline, following up with sales on pending order.
- Production order placement with global vendors including follow-up to ensure on time delivery.
- Following through the complete production process including lab dips, strike offs, fabrics, trims, accessories, fit, size set, pp & TOP sample approval.
- Establish Time and Action calendar (tracking WIP) for overseas factories to ensure that all the goods meet delivery and quality standards. Push weekly updates from factory.
- Understands overall production management process and establish Work in Progress with the factories to keep orders on track.
- Ensure all product is in compliance with all applicable international/U.S. laws and regulations as well as specific customer testing requirements.
- Understand all principals of logistics & follow up on all inbound shipments. Ensure AS400 is actualized as soon as shipment are in transit.
- Maintain close communication with the Operations department and customer Service on inbound deliveries and order tracking; maintain weekly meetings; update QC on all incoming shipment; provide TP and approved pp sample for their cross checking.
- Oversee costing process
- Be proactive, anticipate problems, facilitate problem solving, and address issues in a timely manner.
- Maintain records and documentation of all related purchasing activities such as vendor and purchase orders in the AS400 system maintenance & ensure accuracy on pricing and delivery dates. Maintain WIP report in AS400.
What You'll Need
- 3 years experience in a comparable role in production
- 3 years experience in product development role
- Fully proficient in Excel, Word, Outlook
- Knowledge of AS400
- Familiar with report creation and report reading
- Capable of multitasking, being proactive, anticipating problems, facilitating problem solving, and escalating and addressing issues in a timely manner
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and passion for the job
- Quick learner and a self-starter with excellent organizational skills Adaptable in a fast paced, high growth work environment
Hybrid Apparel is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
