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This position reports to:
Continuous Improvement Manager

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Your Role and Responsibilities

We are now looking for a new Quality Specialist to join our team at ABB Oy, Smart Power in Vaasa. As a Quality Specialist you will be responsible for developing processes through the whole supply chain from the supplier to customer. Your main role is to act as an active and co-operative driver inside the manufacturing factory ensuring continuous quality development. In this position, you will be working cross-functionally with procurement, engineering, and operations, playing a key role in the quality processes of the world's leading automated low-voltage switch factory.

Please note that to best support our supplier collaboration, this position includes travel (approximately 30 days annually).

The work model for the role is: hybrid

Additionally, you will be accountable for:

• Controlling and continuously developing quality in specific production lines
• Perform supplier audits to verify compliance with internal/external requirements
• Taking responsibility for technical reclamations in specific product groups utilizing AI
• Providing quality training to local teams, enabling them to define and document processes that are efficient and controlled
• Monitoring and reporting supplier quality KPIs and targets, creating official customer reports as well as handling root cause analysis (RCA) for supplier quality issues
• Developing and verifying corrective and preventative action plans (CAPA) while driving continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers (Lean, Six Sigma, FMEA)

Qualifications for the Role

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. level degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a related technical field
• Knowledge and/or experience from different manufacturing technologies and willingness to learn
• Experience from an industrial manufacturing company
• A proactive and systematic way of working
• Attention to details and quality-focused mindset
• Good presentation, influencing and communication skills
• Fluency in English and Finnish, both written and spoken
• Lean Six Sigma certification is considered a strong benefit

Benefits

Our culture and benefits reflect our values: courage, care, curiosity and collaboration. The most appreciated benefits according to our personnel are at the moment e.g. an annual performance bonus, employee share acquisition program, continuous learning opportunities, and other wellbeing and family benefits. We have a hybrid working model.

More about us

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division's ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps.

If you have questions, please contact Henna Sjöholm, Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager, Henna.sjoholm@fi.abb.com. Note! We can only accept applications through our official recruitment system. This email contact is for inquiries and further questions only. Apply for the position by May 10th, 2026. We look forward to receiving your application.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. Run What Runs the World. The work model for the role is: hybrid

Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

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