Continuous Improvement Engineer

Company Description

The QIMA story

At QIMA, we are on a mission to offer our clients smart solutions to make products you can trust. Operating in over 100 countries, we serve the consumer products, food, and life sciences industries and help more than 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers, and growers achieve quality excellence. We combine on-the-ground expertise with digital solutions that bring accuracy, transparency and intelligence for quality and compliance data. What sets us apart is our unique culture.

Our 5,000 Qimers live and make decisions every day by our QIMA Values. With client passion, integrity, and a commitment to making things simple, we disrupted the Testing, Inspection, and Certification industry. Are you ready to hop on this exciting ride with us and help us achieve our mission?

Our Consumer Goods Division is dedicated to helping brands, retailers and manufacturers worldwide deliver safe, quality and ethically made products to their consumers. Every day at work, our inspectors, auditors, and lab techs use their expertise to help safeguard the products you use every day in your home: from clothes and footwear to toys and baby products, to electronics, appliances, and furniture.

Job Description

The internship missions

Working within the operations team of our consumer goods QC inspections business, the intern will be responsible for the continuous improvement of our processes aiming at operational excellence and offering cutting-edge solutions for better quality control in the supply chains of our clients.

• Provide technical support on the ground for the inspections: perform product inspections in the factories, train the inspectors, optimize the organization in the factories.
• Perform internal audits to ensure that the inspection SOP is well applied by the inspectors and that the client’s inspections requirements are well integrated and followed.
• Provide technical expertise to identify and evaluate process improvement opportunities: inspections physical and IT tools, AI technologies, inspection protocols, training, data management and analysis, monitoring tools…
• Partner and collaborate with the different support departments to ensure that all issues reported by the inspectors or by the clients are addressed and that effective solutions are implemented at all levels.
• Autonomously manage selected LEAN projects with high value deliverables for improvement of lead-time, quality and costs of the products inspections.

The talent recruited will report directly to the local Operations Manager.

Qualifications

The profile

• Student in the field of Engineering, Quality Management, Supply Chain. Textile industry knowledge is a plus.
• Good level of English required, a second language is a plus.
• Focused on efficiency improvement and with knowledge in LEAN methods.
• Humble, enthusiastic and rigorous, willing to travel and with a strong taste for fieldwork. Excellent interpersonal communication skills and project management experience. 

Additional Information

What you will gain from this internship program?

• An international professional experience.
• A career path with diversified development prospects.
• The opportunity to discover several key functions within a company.
• An experienced manager will mentor and guide the recruited talent throughout the internship.
• The potential for a future career with QIMA. Depending on your aspirations, QIMA may offer you the opportunity to manage small teams at the end of your internship!

Other informations 

• Duration: 6 months.
• 6 possible locations: Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Cambodia or France.

SO, ARE YOU READY TO BECOME A QIMer? JOIN US!

Because our differences make the difference, at QIMA we are proud to promote inclusive diversity and equal opportunities! Our policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

QIMA recognizes and recruits all of its talents.