Dyehouse Technical Supervisor

**Date**:16 Jul 2025

**Location**: VN

**Company**:Coats

**Role Purpose**_(write a short paragraph why the role exists and its contributions to achieving Coats’ goals)_
- To ensure all technical activity meets CPP targets in terms of safety, compliance, speed, quality and productivity through enforcement of SOP’s.
- To develop technical knowledge and skills for the dyehouse team through the delivery of ColourStitch training
- To support end users solving issues related to ColourStitch system.

**Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities**_(Principal accountabilities are specific areas of accountability unique to the position requiring decisions or delivery of results. Accountabilities should not be shared. For most roles, there will be 4-6 accountable areas. For senior roles, there are usually 6-8 accountable areas. Under each principal accountability, identify key activities that are required for delivery. Focus on up to 4 specific activity areas. Activities support the attainment of accountable areas)._

**Key accountability**:

- To ensure all TACs updated as planned, auto-prescreening percentage and RFT/CQ achieve target.
- Monitor and ensure colour passed within tolerance, and all colour related complaints are analysed deep dive and provide preventive actions accordingly.
- To control colour quality well during fibres changing.
- To overally manage pre-screening activities and pre-screeners’ performance

**Common accountability**:

- **Safety and Housekeeping**
- Responsible for team, machine, operation safety aspiring to “Journey to Zero” accident.
- Ensure all accidents/incidents and near miss are reported in a timely manner.
- Actively look for areas where safety and housekeeping can be improved.
- Demonstrate visible leadership of safety through joining and/or doing safety talks to employees.
- **Quality**
- Analyse all colour related complaints and provide preventive actions.
- Ensure all spectrophotometers are calibrated frequently as planned.
- Contract yearly maintenance with Datacolour to maintain all spectrophotometers and card conditioners.
- Use global reports such as Dyehouse Tier 2 and Global TAC’s reports to drive continuous improvement
- **Productivity**
- Ensure all related standard operating procedures and work instructions are up to date, trained to relevant employees and followed properly.
- Measure and meet productivity targets of department such as TACs update as planned, auto-prescreening percentage and RFT/CQ etc
- Ensure all recipes are pre-screened quickly and effectively and in accordance with relevant SOPs to reduce leadtimes, increase PPDS adherence and RFT/CQ.
- Produce analysis of productivity along with proposals for improvement.
- **People management**
- Ensure internal labour regulations and company policies are understood by subordinates and followed properly.
- Set up and communicate SMART objectives to the team.
- Monitor and conduct regular performance review of subordinates.
- Provide timely feedback and have career conversation (at least every half year) with the team.

**Financial Dimensions**
Figures In USDDirect ResponsibilitySupport ResponsibilityTurnover**People Management Responsibility**
(direct / indirect reports)
1Indicate the number of people managed in totalMatrix Manager - (projects/dotted line)Manager of a teamTeams Manager (manager of multiple teams)**Global Remit**
- Operates in:

MarketSub-Region or Region
Corporation-wide**Key Relationships**
- (please attach an organisation chart)

**Internal**
(excluding direct team and manager)

**External**
- Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Planning, HR, Finishing, Sales, Dyehouse Team, Laboratory Team.
1Dyehouse manager1Technical dyeing supervisor9Pre-screeners, Feeback operators- Colour System Team, Technology, Datacolour

**Education, Qualifications and Experience**

Essential
- Desirable
- University graduate - preferably chemical function
- Two year experience in manufacturing environment at management role.
- Ability to build one team and deliver results
- Ability to manage and prioritize own workload.
- Ability to demand quality every time
- Enable to communicate and share policies to their subordinators
- Basic facilitating skill (upward and downward & with other departments)
- Conduct meeting with supervisors and others
- Good understanding of dyehouse systems: ColourStitch; Sedomaster and Lawer
- Good technical knowledge of dyeing methods, dyestuffs, auxiliary chemicals and dyeing machine
- Ability to use Pivot table, fishbone diagram, FMEA...for data analysis
- Ability to communicate in English.
- Writing skill