The Sr. Material Quality Engineering Specialist is responsible for leading the execution of material quality strategies across the Asia supply base to ensure raw materials consistently meet the brand’s quality, performance, safety, and regulatory requirements. Reporting to the Director of Quality Engineering, this role partners closely with Material Development, Product Development, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Product Integrity, and supplier partners to proactively identify, prevent, and resolve material-related quality risks before production.
Serving as a key technical liaison between global headquarters and the Asia supply chain, this role drives continuous improvement in material quality systems, oversees supplier quality performance, validates material manufacturing processes, and supports new material commercialization. This role leverages data, root cause analysis, and supplier capability development to improve quality, reduce defects, and ensure consistent execution across mills and trim suppliers.
What you'll get to do:
- Lead proactive identification and mitigation of material and supply chain risks across mills and material categories
- Drive and monitor cross-functional risk mitigation plans to ensure consistent execution and accountability
- Establish and enforce quality engineering standards to improve material performance and reliability
- Support on-site mill audits to evaluate capabilities, validate processes, and identify improvement opportunities
- Oversee bulk material quality execution, ensuring adherence to standards and minimizing defects
- Investigate root causes of material quality issues and implement corrective and preventive actions
- Drive immediate corrective actions
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to resolve escalated quality issues efficiently
- Strengthen supplier performance through data-driven insights, audits, and capability-building initiatives
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree in Textile/Material Technology, Textile/Material Manufacturing, Chemistry or an allied field or the equivalent combination of education and experience in Textile, Materials Manufacturing, Product Development or Merchandising.
- 5+ years relevant raw materials supply chain work experience with an emphasis on material quality engineering and apparel material quality management system is strongly preferred.
- Has a strong knowledge of varied fiber contents, fabric structures, dye stuffs, chemicals, finishing of apparel materials and their influence on the material aesthetics and performance.
- Understand Critical to Quality of each different material types and has in depth knowledge about apparel material manufacturing end-to-end processes.
- Comfortable engaging with both external partners and internal stakeholders and building strong partnerships.