Location:

Madrid, Spain

Job ID:

R0140876

Date Posted:

2026-08-13

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY SPAIN, S.A.U.

Profession (Job Category):

Quality Management

Job Schedule:

Full time

Remote:

Yes

Job Description:

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about quality assurance, reliability and eager to make a significant impact in a global program?

Join Hitachi Energy in a high-impact role where you will lead the deployment of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) across general teams and key sites. As the Product Quality Assurance Expert , you will take a holistic approach to quality, driving consistency, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement throughout the New Product Introduction (NPI) lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to shape quality strategies, collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, and ensure excellence from concept to delivery, with a hands-on opportunity to pilot in strategic products under development.

How you'll make an impact
- APQP Deployment: act as the APQP project manager on your product line,



ensuring consistent execution across functions and sites, implementing QMS adaptation and scalability to processes, including gate models, to embed APQP compliance to all products.
- Multi-Site Coordination: oversee and align APQP and quality assurance efforts across multiple locations, embedding best practices and harmonized standards.
- Process Integration & Governance: integrate quality processes with an end-to-end holistic view across our business management system, with strong cross-functional collaboration and effective change management.
- Training & Culture Building: lead training programs to foster a zero-defect mindset and ensure adoption of APQP principles across all lifecycle phases, from product development lifecycle, toward project engineering, execution and service.
- Risk Management & Quality Planning: identify and mitigate product quality risks using DFMEA/PFMEA, Control Plans, Lessons Learned and Measurement S

📌 Product Quality Assurance Expert (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid