{"id":1557,"date":"2011-06-27T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T02:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friends-international.org\/blog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T02:05:17","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-friends240-production-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/a-day-in-the-life-friends240-production-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Life \u2013 friends@240 Production Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this edition of \u2018A Day In The Life\u2019 we are introduced to Sakun, production manager of friends@240.<\/em><\/p>\n

My name is Sakun and I work as the Production Manager for the shop\u00a0friends@240<\/a><\/em> in Phnom Penh. Every day I get up at around 7.30am; sometimes I eat breakfast with my family, but if I am in a rush I just grab something on my way to work. I get to the shop for 9am to help set it up the workshop for the day. During the day, I work closely with designers to develop new products and train new staff to make these. We now have a workshop at the Friends-International office as well as behindfriends@240<\/a><\/em>, so I often spend much of my time going between the two places to supervise; I have to make sure that staff keep the workshops clean and safe and that orders are fulfilled on time. I also monitor the quality of the stitching and make sure that patterns are placed correctly so that fabric isn\u2019t wasted. I often end up driving between the two workshops many times a day!\u00a0 For lunch, I am often so busy that I just make instant noodles at work.<\/p>\n

Three or four days a week I visit factories or markets to source materials. I also have administrative work to do, such as writing reports, coordinating scheduling for the shop and working with our Home Based producers to order the items we need. I find budgeting very difficult as I have never done it before, so I am glad that I have Technical Advisors from the Friends-International office to help me! We have a rolling schedule for evenings, so three days a week I stay at the shop until 7pm, otherwise I leave at around 5pm. In the evenings I like to relax, eating dinner with my family and playing with my daughter, who is 18 months old.<\/p>\n

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