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Country/Region:  HK
Reference No.:  515977

Summary

Lidl & Kaufland Asia are hiring a Footwear Technologist in our quality assurance - textile team. The successful candidate will be responsible to investigate the characteristics of shoes to make sure they comply with quality standards.

What you'll do

•    Check new lasts, blue prints and wood molds of new outsoles, check patterns & grading.

•    Create measurement charts

•    Check the fitting and workmanship of prototype/ pre- confirmation samples during new development stage. 

•    Collaborate with PD team and Merchandising team to develop reasonable quality product at low cost. 

•    Provide technical support to PD Team and Merchandising team during new development stage. 

•    Provide support towards suppliers to accurately make prototype samples to the requirements of the Tech Pack.

•    Review Tech Packs and conduct risk assessment 

•    Provide recommendation and manufacturing excellence suggestions to improve workmanship and quality. 

•    Monitor SS (size set samples) and PP samples in order to ensure on time delivery of quality samples.

•    Coordinate and follow up changes with merchandising team’s requests, corrections, revisions in order to make final correction for PP samples.

•    Initiate occationally Pre- Production Handover Meetings with Production Support Team for specific articles

•    Update all company systems and lists related to above tasks on a daily basis

•    Travel occasionally to China or other Asian countries to monitor the technical issues in factories whenever necessary.

•    Travel is required for this role

What you'll need

•    Minimum of 3 years of work experience in footwear industry

•    Bachelor’s degree required, from Polytechnic university or IVE graduate in footwear related studies

•    Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin required

•    Proficiency in MS Office is required

•    Capable to check new lasts, blue prints, wood molds of new outsoles

•    Capable to check patterns, grading and create measurement charts

•    Capable to check fitting and workmanship of various footwear articles

•    Understands shoe-making construction and manufacturing process in production

•    Understands all aspects of product design/aesthetic/functionality and safety for footwear.

•    Able to provide technical support to Factories and Product Development Team 

 

Core skills / competencies

•    Strong organisational skills

•    Willingness to learn

•    Personal initiative

•    Performance-orientated working

•    Effective workload management

•    Maintaining relationships

•    Adapting communication skills

What you'll receive

We are dedicated to fostering a family-friendly culture and work environment and we are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all candidates with the required skills and experience. We enable fair pay within the company by creating non-discriminatory salary systems.

 
Market Leading Remuneration Package:

  • Double pay and discretionary bonus

  • Choice of MPF provider

  • Life Insurance

  • Medical Insurance

 

Supportive Environment:

  • Rental re-imbursement scheme

  • Out-Of-Office leave for important appointments

  • In-house training courses

  • Training sponsorship scheme

  • Health Check

  • Vision Check

 

Work-Life Balance:

  • 5 day week

  • Competitive Annual Leave

  • Charity, Community and Sporting Events

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