Production Quality Specialist – Accessories

The role

You will own the quality standards for production runs and hold suppliers to them. You will set standards for inspectors, drive NCRs and corrective actions, and track quality data to improve ways of working.

What you will do

• Own the standard that decides whether a production run is good enough to ship
• Hold suppliers to quality standards
• Set standards for on-site inspectors, third-party inspectors, and production support crew
• Drive NCRs and corrective actions to close
• Keep standards consistent across factories in different time zones
• Track quality data and spot trends
• Build quality manuals and define batch sign-off rules
• Prioritise pre-shipment inspections and QC checks by risk and launch timing
• Flag quality risks in new product briefs

Required qualifications

• A few years in quality control or assurance for consumer products made overseas: soft goods, accessories, footwear, technical gear or homewares
• Hands-on experience with pre-production and bulk sample approval, applying QC manuals, spec sheets and construction standards
• A solid technical grounding in AQL sampling, NCR management, root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Experience holding overseas suppliers to a standard: raising non-conformances, driving corrective actions to resolution, and coordinating remote QA staff and third-party inspections through to pre-shi
• Experience with quality data: tracking KPIs, spotting cross-category trends and turning them into clear recommendations
• Clear, confident communication in tricky supplier conversations
• Ability to turn technical findings into plain next steps
• Self-starter who takes direction and sees things through
• Experience guiding others such as on-site inspectors and production support crew

Nice to have

• You’ve turned a jumble of product standards into clear rules someone else could follow

About the company

Bellroy is a certified B Corporation that makes carry products. They are a close-knit group of thinkers and makers from over 25 different countries.