Quality Specialist – Incoming Quality & Tool/Calibration Management

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The opportunity

We are looking for a Quality Specialist – Incoming Quality & Tool/Calibration Management to ensure the quality of incoming materials and manage the calibration system for measuring and test equipment. In this role, you will help maintain high-quality standards by ensuring compliance with internal procedures, customer requirements, and applicable quality standards. You will work closely with procurement, production, engineering, and quality teams to prevent quality issues, ensure measurement system reliability, support operational excellence, and drive continuous improvement.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Manage incoming quality activities, ensuring that purchased materials and components meet technical and quality requirements.
• Coordinate inspection and verification activities for incoming products, supporting the timely resolution of non-conformities.
• Lead containment actions and disposition decisions for non-conforming incoming materials.
• Monitor non-conformity trends, cost of poor quality, and incoming inspection effectiveness.
• Manage the calibration program for measuring and test equipment, ensuring compliance with internal procedures, customer requirements, and applicable standards, while maintaining calibration records and ensuring timely calibration, verification, and maintenance activities.
• coordinate the logistics of test instruments and oil sample, supporting warehouse personnel in handling, storage, tracking, and availability of tools required for field and workshop activities.
• Support warehouse operations by identifying, inspecting, and reintegrating materials and spare parts returned from field service activities, ensuring proper documentation, inventory accuracy, and availability for future use.
• Contribute to the reliability and accuracy of inspection and testing processes.
• Support internal and external audits related to quality systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities and continuously improve incoming inspection and quality processes.

Your background

• Technical high school diploma or bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Industrial Technology, or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Incoming Quality or a related quality function.
• Good understanding of inspection methods, measurement systems, metrology principles, and calibration management.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, specifications, and quality requirements.
• Experience with SAP Quality Management modules or equivalent quality management systems is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of ISO/IEC 17025 requirements and auditor qualification (ISO 9001 or equivalent) is considered a plus.
• Fluent in Italian and English, both written and spoken.

More about us

The minimum salary for this position in the location specified is as follows:

• Starting from: 38000 € euros

The final offer will be based on candidate location, skills and qualifications, experience, and aligned with internal pay structures.

Our benefits offering for this role generally includes:

• Incentive Plan, Lunch ticket or canteen, Health Insurance, Pension Fund, Welfare, Flexible working hours, Hybrid work model, Well-being platform, Family Care Benefits, Parking and Partnerships (gyms, sports centers, stores).

Applicable CBA: Metalmeccanico

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About Us

Hitachi brings together the world’s greatest minds to help breathe life into new possibilities – and drive innovation for a better future. That’s why we look for individuals who share our pioneering spirit, have imaginative ideas and are fearless when it comes to tackling the world’s biggest challenges.