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This position reports to:
Production Engineering Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

You will have the opportunity to optimize the Production organization's injection molding processes, in accordance with business strategies related to quality, efficiency, costs, and safety. Each day, you will cooperate with suppliers for the realization, modification and maintenance of molding equipment for plastic components, with R&D for the improvement of design of parts to make them producible and with quality department for the sustainability of production processes.
You will also define molding processes to achieve the targeted product cost and equipment investment budget, together with the optimization of maintenance cost and production capacity management.

Work model for the role is onsite with possibility to work remotely and necessity of frequent travels at molding suppliers' premises.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Providing the equipment technical specification to order to external supplier molding equipment; conducts comparison of technical offers and guarantees adherence to the technical requirements. Monitors external development progress and set the plan and criteria for equipment validation, installation and startup. Optimize injection mold and processes to achieve the targeted product cost and equipment investment budget.
• Cooperating with R&D department during project execution phase in order to ensure and optimize the manufacturability of new plastic parts, challenging the design choices, proposing cost effective solutions and supporting the cross-functional team, joining the weekly update meeting and providing all the deliverables in charge of engineering department.
• Evaluating new process technologies to improve productivity, quality and cost reduction, defining and leading testing activities, approval criteria, and external provider choices.
• Ensuring the production process complies with the project targets. Approves the design for molding processes developed externally and performs final tests according to project specification. Provides support to production during the equipment start-up, defining action plans, working on preventive and extraordinary maintenance.
• Providing support to Production during the internal/external process/equipment start-up, defining and following-up action plans.
• Taking a leading role for the technical competencies growth of the engineering team, supporting and coaching colleagues.

Qualifications for the role

• You are engaged in plastic molding processes and enjoy working with external suppliers and colleagues both on technical and economic topics.
• Have established skills in plastic molding processes, evaluation of mold design, evaluation of injection criticalities. You have 10 years of experience in plastic molding processes.
• Ability to demonstrate experience in CAD modelling, 3D and 2D drawing and good knowledge of Office package.
• Good experience with molding simulation tool (mold flow).
• Degree in mechanical engineering is a plus.
• You are at ease communicating in Italian and English, you have strong ability to work in team, to prioritize task, to work with deadline and to manage projects effectively.
• Availability to travel 20-40%, both for same‑day trips and multi‑day travel.

Benefits

Locally, you can count on:

• Competitive compensation: Attractive salary packages and performance bonuses.
• Corporate welfare: Access to a wide range of services and personal well-being support.
• Career development: Structured career paths, individual development plans, opportunities for internal mobility, including international roles, technical and managerial training programs, mentoring and access to global learning platforms
• Employee Support: free services like psychological help, wellness coaching, and emotional support for employees and their families.
• Parental Leave: at least 12 weeks of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers, promoting DEI values.
• Meal allowance: Access to canteen.

More about us

ABB Smart Buildings enables optimization of energy efficiency, safety, security and comfort for any building type, through new installations or retrofit solutions. The Division offers integrated digital technologies to control HVAC, lighting, shutters, and security, in addition to energy distribution solutions including DIN rail products, enclosures and emergency lighting through to industrial plugs and sockets and conventional wiring accessories, accommodating for single family homes, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, infrastructure and industrial applications. The Division's highly innovative technologies and digital solutions serve rising global demand among real estate developers, owners, and investors for smart building technologies that optimize energy distribution and building automation. The scalable solutions aim to deliver significant sustainable and financial benefits, meeting social and environmental demands, while being able to address even the most complex of customers' carbon reduction strategies.

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