Production Job Descriptions — Letter Q

This is the Q page of the Production and Sourcing category index, which files the category's role descriptions alphabetically by job title. Three production roles begin with Q, and together they are the category's quality family: the manager who designs the quality system, the manager who runs inspection, and the technologist who tests materials in the laboratory. Each role below links to its full description.

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The Three Q Roles

Quality Assurance Manager — The assurance manager owns the system that prevents defective garments: standards, AQL inspection regimes, factory audits, testing requirements and the corrective-action loop that stops faults repeating.

Quality Control Manager — The control manager runs the inspection operation itself: inline and final inspections, sampling decisions, defect classification, and the pass, rework or hold decision on real shipments.

Quality Technologist — The technologist proves materials in the laboratory: colourfastness, shrinkage, strength, flammability and fibre content tested to recognised methods, with fabrics approved or rejected on the evidence.

Read together, the three pages draw a distinction the whole industry organises around: assurance prevents, control detects, and technology measures — three different crafts that share one word, quality.

How the Production Category Is Organised

Production and Sourcing covers the making side of fashion: developing and engineering styles, pattern cutting by hand and computer, colour work in laboratories and dye houses, factory management, quality control and sourcing. Its seventy-eight descriptions sit across sixteen letters — A, C, D, E, F, G, I, L, M, O, P, Q, S, T, V and W in the bar above — fullest at P, with fifteen roles in the production-office family.