Quality Control & Laboratory Specialist

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to:

Quality Control Manager

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Your Role and Responsibilities

You will conduct tests with a focus on safety, efficiency, quality, and productivity to ensure that products and systems meet stated requirements. You will apply various test protocols and current industry standards to maintain high quality levels, collaborating in the development of new test protocols to verify the integrity of new products and improve existing ones.

- Work model:

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact, as you will be accountable for:

• Conducting long-term reliability tests on mass production.

• Analyzing test results according to applicable standards to verify product compliance.

• Zero series: conducting validation tests to ensure the quality of new products and suppliers, and managing assigned validation projects.

• Performing failure and root cause analysis for apparatus and switchgears.

• Carrying out activities necessary for the preparation and drafting of test reports (DMAIC).

• Collaborating with team members to optimize test protocols and capabilities, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and reliability of test outcomes.

• Safety: using safety systems to perform work, contributing to an accident-free workplace. Reporting unsafe situations when observed and working with local HSE teams to improve safety systems.

Qualifications for the Role

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with at least 1 year of experience in a similar role.

• Alternatively, technical high school diploma in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 3 years' experience in a similar position.

• Good manual and hands-on technical skills.

• Analysis capability and interpretation of data results.

• Teamwork, organizational skills, and problem-solving aptitude.

• You are at ease communicating in Italian and have a good command of English.

Compensation Package

As part of our commitment to transparency, we want to share the compensation details for this position:

Applicable CBA: Metalmeccanico

Minimum annual salary: €36.000,00

Variable Pay: Eligible for Company Productivity Bonus

The offer will be tailored based on your role location, experience, skills and qualifications, internal market positioning and alignment with ABB internal standards.

Benefits as per policy

Flexible working hours, hybrid work options, and a strong focus on work-life integration and Wellbeing support for employees and their families

Welfare plan with a wide range of personalized services

Canteen or meal vouchers provided

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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