Dole. New factory and vast recruitment campaign: why IDMM is a hit

Based since its founding in 1994 in the Epenottes area (rue Henri-Jeanrenaud), the Dole micromechanics industry (IDMM) has expanded over the past two weeks to Damparis, where the company has just set up a new production site (rue Galilée, opposite the airport).

Since the acquisition on March 15, transfers and moves have taken place. The Damparis site is operational with a team of about fifteen people who have already been in place for two weeks. Ultimately, we hope to increase the workforce to forty people.

From Jura to Mexico

Specialists in precision machining, IDMM supplies micromechanical parts to a wide range of industrial sectors ranging from connectivity to medical, including defense and aerospace. IDMM is for example one of the suppliers ofAirbus, Bombardier, Eurocopter, Bell…

This industrial gem from Dole has survived all the crises that the sector has experienced (relocations, takeover by predatory funds, etc.) for thirty years. Acquired in 2007 by the groupe Radiall (Gattaz family), IDMM has even opened a production site in Mexico in 2019. “It’s a site that produces only for the American market. We did not create this site to do low cost but to work in the Dollar zone,” underlines Roland Pidancier.

Survival lesson

It is therefore almost a small miracle to see IDMM preparing to considerably increase its production in 2024. It seems that Roland Pidancier and his team have found the secret to survival in a hostile environment. “You have to be representative in terms of size, you have to have strong backs since it is still a profession that requires a lot of investment. We invest in machines but more widely in people to develop strong skills. That’s what makes us stand out from the crowd.”

Today, it is still an activity that is under pressure, especially at the level of small players in micromechanics. There are many failures because customers are more demanding with the evolution of standards. It is a cost, it is a budget, it is a structure to set up, but IDMM has anticipated this evolution for about fifteen years by a part of recruitment and a part of reorganization. And today, we fully meet the expectations of customers. This is what allows us to stand out from our colleagues

80 recruitments by 2030

With this strong positioning, IDMM is now ideally placed to take advantage of the phenomenon of industrial relocation, particularly encouraged by the constraints of new environmental standards. “We are opening the Damparis site to respond to an increase in activity. These are new markets emerging with the phenomenon of industrial relocation in Europe which responds to customer requests. It’s a trend which is strong in the aeronautical, defense and industrial sectors. »

In these conditions, Roland Pidancier and his team view the future with optimism.

In 5 years, our wish is to have been able to recruit 80 additional people in Dole to continue our growth. And I’m not talking about replacing retirements, I’m talking about 80 recruitments. With our entities in Mexico and Switzerland, we will have 500 employees. In five years, we will have gone from 350 employees to 500

Recruitment: a challenge

IDMM therefore plans to recruit 80 employees over the next five years. A real challenge given the difficulties in this area already encountered by the company:

We currently have about fifteen people on professional training contracts who are undergoing professional retraining. We train them and adapt them to our professions, but that is not enough.

And note that a candidate with no experience in the sector can integrate into it with a little work and motivation. » We start this type of profile with sorting the parts so that they can control the product. Then, over the course of the training, You can become a regulator in five or six years. «

Which may seem long but » A person who has all the skills would not have any salary problems, whether with us or elsewhere. “, says Catherine Chevalier.

Given the sector’s labor needs, there are some great career developments possible

But if the applications of neophytes are treated with attention, IDMM has other needs. » We also need to strengthen ourselves with people who have more expertise. » If IDMM is looking for executives, Catherine Chevalier is also thinking of technicians:

A candidate who only has a baccalaureate is already not bad; if he has a professional baccalaureate in machining, that’s great; and if he has been trained in work-study, that’s even better.

And the human resources director confides: “We are constantly monitoring recruitment. »

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