Carpet Technical Officer

Position Title: Carpet Technical Officer

Activation Date: 03 March, 2025 Announced Date: 03 March, 2025 Expire Date: 16 March, 2025

• Job Location: Jawzjan
• Nationality: National
• Category: Customer Service
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: As Per Company Salary Scale
• Vacancy Number: 0325-01
• No. Of Jobs: 1
• City: kabul
• Organization: Turquoise Mountain
• Years of Experience: 3
• Contract Duration: 12 Months (Extendable)
• Gender: Male
• Education: bachelors
• Close date: 2025-03-16
  
  

About Turquoise Mountain

Background

Turquoise Mountain is a non-profit, non-governmental organization specializing in urban regeneration, business development, and education in traditional arts and architecture. We seek to provide jobs, skills, and a renewed sense of national pride to Afghan men and women. Since 2006 Turquoise Mountain has cleared 35,000 cubic meters of rubbish from the streets, restored 112 historic and community buildings, created a primary school and a clinic, and installed water, electricity and sanitation through the historic traditional craft neighborhood of Murad Khani in the old city of Kabul. It has created the internationally accredited Institute for Afghan Arts & Architecture, training the next generation of craftsmen and women in woodwork, jewelry and gem cutting, calligraphy and miniature painting, and ceramics. Finally, it has sold over US$ 5,000,000 of Afghan artisan products internationally.

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Carpet Production Coordinator will oversee all technical aspects of carpet production, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality standards by coordinating with producers, weavers, dyers, and finishing teams. Additionally, they will provide training to enhance technical skills, support new carpet designs, and contribute to the strategic development of the Afghan carpet industry.

Order and production management

• Work in close coordination with other members of the Turquoise Mountain carpet team to oversee all technical aspects relating to the production of carpet orders.
• Coordinate closely with carpet producer companies (management, wool spinners, dyers, weavers, washing/finishing teams) to ensure all carpet orders are finished on time and to the required design and quality
• Coordinate closely with the Turquoise Mountain sales and customer liaison teams to ensure accurate information on all orders is given to them on the production status of all outstanding customer orders.
• Support the introduction of new carpet designs by acting as an intermediary between Turquoise Mountain designers/sales agents/international clients and local carpet producer companies
  
  

Capacity Building

• Raise the technical skill levels (especially in dyeing, washing and finishing) of carpet producer companies by carrying out training so they are able to fulfil orders from international clients to a consistently high standard
• Carry out visits to carpet producer companies to provide training and to supervise order fulfillment, and to ensure quality control
  
  

General Activities

• Help identify new carpet producer companies to join Turquoise Mountain’s current development program
• Identify ways to improve the production infrastructure of carpet producer companies
• Contribute to Turquoise Mountain’s strategy for supporting the Afghan carpet industry in collaboration with other members of the carpet team
• Participate in regular coordination calls with management and other team members
  
  

Job Requirements

Experience and qualificatios:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in carpet production with experience in wool spinning, wool dying process, weaving, washing, and finishing.
• A bachelor's degree in social science or a related field.
• An understanding of carpet qualities and finishes required by international carpet customers
• Experience in carpet design software preferred
• Experience of using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word)
• An understanding of local languages (Dari, Pashtu and or Turkman), and English
  
  

Submission Guideline

Candidates are requested to apply through the provided link (https://forms.office.com/e/B3r22NC9T4) no later than 16th March 2025.

Kindly submit your CV and Cover Letter as a single PDF document and refrain from attaching certificates or large files.

Submission Email

https://forms.office.com/e/B3r22NC9T4