Manufacturing Auditor

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
You will support the Manufacturing Audit and Factory Improvement team and help ensure that our Factory Improvement programs consistently exceed our clients' expectations.

You Will Be Expected To

• Evaluate the manufacturing sites of our clients' suppliers, and assess the product quality and safety risks. Your areas of attention will include Supplier and Sub-contractor Management, Incoming Material Control, Process Control, Warehousing, Quality Assurance Systems, and Productivity Improvement;
• Analyze product defects reported by our clients, to determine the most probable root cause, and identify the origin of defects;
• Implement practical and cost-effective actions at suppliers' manufacturing sites, to help them improve and the next level, while leading to sensitive reduction of defect rates for our clients;
• Represent both QIMA and our clients while dealing with suppliers, to create healthy and long-terms relationships between our clients and their trusted suppliers;
• Approach your job with utmost integrity, as your conduct during an intervention on-site can have lasting consequences for the supplier, factory staff, and our clients.

Qualifications

• A higher education degree in a Textile Engineering or Industrial Engineering related major;
• Factory expertise in high-level Textile or Electronic Quality Management for International Suppliers or Brands.
• At least 3 years practical experience in performing Quality Management audits (ISO9001, Brands Requirement) in Third Party and ability to perform Softline or hardline product inspections.
• ISO9001 Lead Auditor certification and amfori QMI training certificate is a plus.
• SCAN CTPAT is also a plus.
• Good Command of English (spoken and written)