CoE Quality Engineer

Be a part of a revolutionary change: At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business, and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to deliver a smoke-free future worldwide. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning. Your ‘day to day’: As a CoE Quality Engineer you will have to Lead Q-CoE activities, within the areas of competence of the respective stream, to identify, justify and implement improvements to existing quality processes. Act as KPI owner to trigger continuous improvement activities on product and process, identifying corrective actions and presenting data analyses and related conclusions. Lead activities of internal and cross-functional teams, based on different location, to tackle identified product quality issues, by coordinating the execution of tests, design of experiments and test of technology assessments while ensuring optimization, control of quality costs, and proper communication with impacted stakeholders. Act as subject matter expert to support risk assessment of existing packages and quality processes and support continuous improvement of QA standards related to key processes & practices across the involved factories. Your Responsibilities: - Execute Governance for NC, CAPA and Deviation Permit (DP), Control Strategy (CC only), Manufacturing Quality and In-Process Control processes keeping updated SOPs and related forms, and ensure the alignment with the related DIR. Lead Communities and ensure standardization among all Entities (Central Functions and Manufacturing sites) for the proper execution of these processes. Act as SME for the Business Process Owner (BPO) of the relevant manufacturing systems and thrive for the improvement of the e-platform that manages processes and ensure the compliance with QMS requirements. Establish and monitor KPIs for all Manufacturing Centers and foster continuous improvement within these entities. Coach Stakeholders on supportive processes for their improvement and ensure correct communication to all impacted Entities. - Collaborate with relevant internal and external colleagues, applying proven scientific / engineering principles and practices, to assess the proposed improvements on control systems, processes and product performances. Confirm that the project pilot meets the quality acceptance criteria and ensure completeness of related reference package. Transfer the accomplished product, process and system quality improvements, including knowledge and expertise, within the organization to ensure sustainable implementation. - Track project / activity progress as per the defined project plan and recommend revisions to the timetable and resource requirements to ensure all assigned projects are maintained on schedule and within the budget requirements. Provide timely updates to the project / activity owner. Perform data analysis review and storage in line with Company, FDA (RRP only) or any other equivalent accreditation authority requirements. Ensure that objectives and targets related to quality are defined, known and followed-up by the stakeholders. - Ensure a strong partnership with internal/external stakeholders focusing on collaboration and information exchange to ensure excellent quality, standardization and continuous improvement. Support the continuous improvement strategy by performing analytical studies, data & trend analysis; share and validate it with upper management and finalize the related reports including observations of the cross-functional team and management. - Present results / project advancements in Global Quality Operations (Q-Ops) Review Meetings. Act as product quality expert and advisor where research / technical information may have a potential positive impact on the understanding of product performance and of product-consumer interaction to identify deviations from reference packages and correct and / or prevent non-conformity reoccurrence. - Prepare and validate internal and external training and train the relevant business functions on procedures owned by Q-CoE. Ensure that the receiving party is ready to take over the local training execution. For RRP: identify, within the organization, the profiles requiring the appropriate training level of the related disciplines for which he / she is SME. - Provide timely inputs to ensure appropriate governance for Q-OPS PDCA, Masterplan de finition and 90 Days Plan. Lead Product Performance KPIs among RRP community. Identify area of improvements and lead investigation activities among the sites. Ensure the tools required for appropriate Cost of Quality calculations are in place, understood and aligned with stakeholders and propose improvements in the cost allocation and management. - Carry out all of the activities ensuring that PMI Compliance Policies, Standards, and Laws relating to these activities are fully respected, integrated and understood by stakeholders, and implement adequate processes to ensure the protection of information of a confidential nature. Promote and apply all rules concerning PMI Quality, Environment, Health and Safety. Report all situations requiring actions to minimize or eliminate risks exposure to personnel, company assets and societal impacts and be in line with or ahead of any applicable Law requirements and Company standards. Who we’re looking for: Education: College/University<>University degree in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering or equivalent scientific disciplines or equivalent skills through demonstrated experience Work experience: 3-8 years experience in Quality disciplines in tobacco, food, pharmaceutical or similar industry. Functional Skills: Advanced knowledge of relevant standards (ISO, ICH, GMP). Well developed IT skills, analytical skills, and project management skills. Advanced knowledge on Quality tools, root-cause analysis, and statistical tools. Product Quality Knowledge. Employment Type: Permanent Relocation package offered What we offer: Our success depends on the men and women who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can: • Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore. • Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong. • Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. • Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future worldwide. Philip Morris Manufacturing & Technology Bologna (PM MTB): PM MTB is Philip Morris International’s Center of excellence, worldwide recognized for prototyping, mass-volume production and employees’ training on smoke-free products. PM MTB employs more than 1000 employees and its production site of Crespellano is one of the most advanced manufacturing venues in Italy for technology innovation, competencies development and talent recognition. In 2019, Philip Morris Manufacturing & Technology Bologna has been awarded as Top Employer for the sixth year in a row. In the same year, was also granted the Equal Salary Certification certificate by the homonymous foundation to certify that men and women are paid equally for equivalent work. Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working. You’ll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world: a smoke-free world.