Engineering Quality Specialist

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking an Engineering Quality Specialist to strengthen engineering excellence by enforcing quality governance, driving preventive quality initiatives, and ensuring adherence to QMS across global engineering groups.

The role collaborates with Engineering and Quality teams to monitor KPIs, manage documentation, and implement corrective actions that improve product reliability and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in Engineering, Quality, or related technical field.
• Experience with transformer engineering, manufacturing, product quality, or engineering quality processes is preferred.
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS), quality compliance processes, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Understanding of DFMEA, APQP, RCA, CAPA, and engineering risk management principles.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills with experience in quality KPI reporting and dashboard management.

Responsibilities

• Establishes Engineering Quality governance and compliance across the Business Unit, monitoring standards, audits, and standardization.
• Manages Quality KPIs, COPQ, test failures, NC trends, and dashboards to guide quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensures compliance with industry standards and drives global standards management.
• Maintains Engineering Quality documentation and QMS procedures within ETQ or similar systems.
• Coordinates Lessons Learned, tracks NCRs, CAPA, and preventive actions across engineering teams.
• Supports DFMEA and APQP deployment and promotes preventive quality practices.

Skills

Quality governance

KPIs

Data analytics

DFMEA

APQP

RCA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Power BI

Excel

SharePoint

SAP

Job description

Hitachi Energy is seeking an Engineering Quality Specialist to support the Business Unit Engineering Quality function in strengthening engineering excellence through effective quality governance, compliance management, performance monitoring, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement. The role is responsible for promoting standardized quality practices, ensuring adherence to quality requirements, driving preventive quality initiatives, and supporting the delivery of high‑quality engineering outcomes that enhance product reliability and customer satisfaction across global engineering organizations.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Engineering Quality Governance & Compliance: Ensures adherence to Engineering Quality standards, processes, and QMS requirements across the Business Unit by monitoring compliance, supporting audits and assessments, and driving standardization of engineering quality practices.
• Quality Performance Management: Monitors and analyzes Engineering Quality KPIs, including Quality Notifications (QN), Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), test failures, and non-conformance trends, while providing regular reports and recommendations to support quality improvement initiatives. Maintains the quality, accuracy, and integrity of Engineering Quality dashboards and reports by ensuring timely data updates, continuous enhancement of reporting tools, effective data governance, and reliable analytics to support informed decision-making across the organization.
• Industry Standards Compliance & Governance: Responsible for maintaining compliance with applicable industry standards by ensuring timely review and assessment of standards, monitoring revisions and updates, communicating changes through a structured governance process, coordinating stakeholder actions, and driving consistent implementation of global standards management practices across the organization.
• Engineering Documentation & QMS Management: Maintains Engineering Quality documentation and supports the creation, revision, deployment, and control of procedures, standards, work instructions, and records within ETQ and other quality management systems.
• Lessons Learned & Non-Conformance Management: Coordinates the Lessons Learned process and tracks recurring quality issues, ensuring that key learnings, corrective actions, and preventive measures are effectively captured, shared, and implemented across engineering teams.
• Engineering Risk Prevention (DFMEA/APQP Support) : Supports the deployment of DFMEA and APQP methodologies by facilitating risk identification, promoting preventive quality practices, incorporating lessons learned into risk assessments, and supporting the implementation of Engineering Quality Inspection Checklists (E-QIC).
• Engineering Failure Prevention & RCA Support: Supports the analysis and resolution of engineering-related quality issues, test failures, NCRs, and field concerns through effective tracking, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), CAPA monitoring, and implementation of preventive actions.
• Project & Continuous Improvement Management: Coordinates Engineering Quality projects and improvement initiatives by tracking actions in One Plan, monitoring Quality Improvement Plans, and driving continuous improvement based on KPI performance, audit findings, and lessons learned.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Quality Culture: Collaborates within Engineering, Quality, and other stakeholders in the organization to promote quality awareness, process discipline, preventive thinking, and a culture of continuous improvement across the Business Unit.

Your background:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Engineering, Quality, or a related technical field.
• Experience in transformer engineering, manufacturing, product quality, or engineering quality processes is preferred.
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS), quality compliance processes, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Understanding of DFMEA, APQP, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), CAPA, and engineering risk management principles.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills with experience in quality KPI reporting and dashboard management.
• Experience with Power BI, Excel, SharePoint, SAP, or similar quality and reporting tools is an advantage.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills in a global organization

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.