Equipment Industrialization Engineer

IDEMIA Group; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader in Los Angeles is seeking a Production Engineer to develop and implement production materials and technologies for mass production. This role requires strong project management skills, a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or related engineering, and experience with automated processes. The engineer will collaborate closely with various teams while ensuring quality and efficiency in production environments. Join us to contribute to innovative identity technologies that enhance safety worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience in industry with automated processes.
• Experience with project management methods.
• Strong knowledge of engineering disciplines (mechanics, electronics, automatisms).

Responsibilities

• Develop acceptance reports for product development.
• Support pilot production with R&D and engineering teams.
• Evaluate budget, quality, and test requirements for mass production.
• Approve mass production and actualize processes.

Skills

Experience in industry with automated processes

Project management methods

Strong knowledge of mechanics, electronics

Diagnosing and solving problems

Good communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Production Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

CAD

Job description

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Since our founding, IDEMIA has been on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer through our cutting-edge identity technologies. Our technology leadership makes us the partner of choice for hundreds of governments and thousands of enterprises in over 180 countries, including some of the biggest and most influential brands in the world. In applying our unique expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we enable our clients to unlock simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places – at scale and in total security.

Our teams work from 5 continents and speak 100+ different languages. We strongly believe that our diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance.

Purpose

This role is responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of production materials, equipment, and technologies before conducting mass production.

Key Missions

The P&PE engineer will:

• Develop final factory acceptance report to ensure that product development will respect all mass production requirements from his customer.
• Support New product pilot production with R&D team and Factory Engineering team to collect and build a parameters package of this new production and ensure that this package is reliable.
• Evaluate budget – wastes – restrictions – documentations – training – quality - test requirements to push a Pilot Production in a Mass Production mode and potentially into a different production plant (overseas – final customer)
• Approve first mass production and give Green light to complete and autonomous local production.
• Support production / knowledge transfer from the Pilot site to another mass production site by training – procedures …
• Build and support investment cases by carrying out technical, economic and capacity studies. Argue and present these investment cases to the management.
• Carry out the acceptance or equipment qualification phases at the supplier and Idemia sites by anticipating and implementing the necessary tests and measurements within the constraints of costs, quality and time.
• Coordinate equipment transfer projects between sites and / or suppliers by considering planning constraints
• Visit suppliers and carry out the necessary tests to assess the capabilities and capabilities of potential new equipment
• Monitor the start of production of installed equipment to collect Key Productions Indicators
• Collect operational data and user recommendations about installed equipment to define and propose improvement solutions. Challenge users and management for the implementation of those proposed solutions.
• Support the Lv3 Laser Expert by being trained Lv2 Laser Expert
• In the framework of tenders, propose optimized solutions in terms of equipment and associated services based on the experience, technical specifications, potential requests for quotation to suppliers and potential feasibility tests.

The Perso equipment engineer works:

• In contact with internal customers (Idemia banking service centers, product line)
• In close relationship with engineering industrialization teams (Global Ops.) and by soliciting internal departments (manufacturing engineering, R & D, etc.)
• With equipment suppliers
• In backup of the Laser engineer

The scope of actions

• For the BU Financial Institutions (31 Sites worldwide), all the processes present in a personalization center = counting, storage, electrical customization machines, graphic (embossing, thermal printing and inkjet or laser), matching, folding, enveloping, printing of documents, destruction of documents

Profile & Other Information

Experience required

• Experience in industry, workshop with automatized fast throughput process is a must
• Experience with project management methods is a must
• Strong knowledge of engineering disciplines, systems and processes (mechanics, electronics, automatisms)
• Experience with equipment qualification would be a significant plus

Education/professional

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Production Engineering or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Office
• CAD
• Spanish or German language proficiency is a plus
• Knowledge in printing technologies is a plus
• Plastic / printing knowledge is a plus
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Aptitude for diagnosing and solving problems
• Mobilize resources to implement new technical solutions
• Agile
• Good communicator and influencer to internal and external interlocutors.
• Project Management

By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you will join a unique tech company, offering a wide range of growth opportunities. You will contribute to a safer world, collaborating with an international and global community. We value the diversity of our teams and welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.

We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards 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.

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