Global Suppliers Quality Engineer
You may not know our name, but you have surely used our innovations and solutions.
Our mission is to unlock the world and make it safer through cutting-edge identity technologies. Every day, around the globe, we are enabling citizens and consumers alike to perform their daily critical activities (such as pay, connect and travel), in the physical as well as digital space. We are transforming their lives by making the world more secure and yet also more streamlined.
We have brought together complementary know-how and technologies that have never been combined before for both the physical and digital era: secured connectivity, secured payments and secured identity management. Cybersecurity, biometrics, large scale distributed systems and Cloud computing, analytics and smart devices are at the core of both our physical products and our software and systems.
We serve our clients in 180 countries thanks to our 15,000 employees worldwide.
Purpose
This role aims at optimizing and monitoring the quality level of supplies by having the objective to maximize customer satisfaction as well as IDEMIA's performance.
To succeed in this mission, the Global Suppliers Quality Engineer needs to build collaborative links internally with Quality department from our production sites dispatched in various countries, R&D, Engineering, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Quality Business Units, Corporate social responsibility department internally and externally with our worldwide suppliers.
Key Missions
1. Supplier Quality Qualification
- Quality representative responsible for ensuring that all new/ potential suppliers are assessed against the relevant selection procedures and fully meet internal standards
- Ensure that potential suppliers have the necessary skills and measuring equipment competencies to provide us conforming products
- Provide along with SQA NPI quality appendix and quality commitment
- Review with SQA NPI Quality specification, cosmetic criteria’s and our internal incoming inspections instructions
- Perform suppliers qualification audits
2. New product Introduction support
- Support SQA NPI in each milestone until handover: getting control plan, FAI, cosmetic book agreement
3. Suppliers Quality monitoring and reporting
- Plan and monitor appropriate actions (audits, scorecards, attend and contribute for Quality to Suppliers Performance Review, according to internal procedure) and measure quality supplier performance level
- Control processing system anomalies, processes and products (CAR, Non-conformities and concession products)
- Decide on supplier concessions post-analysis
- Ensure effective actions at supplier and internally
- Measure effectiveness post-action
- Manage crisis situations
- Ensure tier 2 supplier control
- Ensure supplier self-inspection
- Ensure proper incoming plant inspections
- Supply evidence for non-quality cost flow
- Participating in Lessons learned following supplier none quality events
- Inform SQA, Quality, Supply Chain, Purchasing, and R&D about issues and actions
- Reports activity, manages indicators
4. Coordination and support to IDEMIA plants (and / or more generally internal customers)
- Review KPI and 8D from IDEMIA Suppliers Quality Assurance departments if escalation is needed
- Ensure coordination between corporate and local level
- Non conformances
5. Contribute to leverage non IATF supplier QMS with action plan to IATF
- Supplier risk and gap analysis versus IATF requirements
- AQP.pp adaptation versus supplier maturity level, follow up
- Manage risk list for automotive BOM
- IMDS database management (supplier level)
- Build and enrich RETEX/LLC for Automotive components
6. Contribute to continuous improvement carbon emission reduction programs
- Proposes good practices
- Manage return of Experience
- Steer SQA improvement plan for existing products and suppliers
- Support, investigate, measure and benchmark carbon emission initiative at suppliers
- Contribute to IDEMIA program to measure and decrease carbon emission
To succeed, you will need the following skills:
- Mandatory: strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Strong analytic skills
- Ability to synthesize
- Detail Oriented
- Curiosity
- Autonomous
- Tenacious
- Proactive
- Communication skills
And grounded experience in:
- Engineering/ manufacturing (bachelor or master degree)
- At least seven years of experience in quality (manufacturing, engineering or suppliers)
- International environment
- fluent English
Team is based in La Défense. Regular travels for sites and global suppliers visits (once a month) are expected
By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you can join the journey of a unique tech company. You can seize all the opportunities of our fast-paced environment. You can add your distinctive qualities to our global community. You can contribute to a safer world.
We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards. We’re well established, and yet still agile. We aren’t too big, and we aren’t too small. And we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.
At IDEMIA, people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.
Our teams are close and collaborative; maintaining a dialogue and developing human connections matter to us. We are truly international and we know that diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance. We welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.
Each of our locations has its own advantages to offer a collaborative and friendly work environment.
IDEMIA. Expect the unexpected. Join the journey of a unique tech company.