Position Title:  Product 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 one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future.

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.

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, our stakeholder engagement, how we communicate, our focus on sustainability at large. 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.

We are now recruiting a Product Engineer in Bologna, to join our MDC Department (Philip Morris Manufacturing and Technology Bologna).

Your purpose:

In your role, a key responsibility will be to perform studies, feasibility analysis, product risk assessment, test plan, report of projects to meet stakeholders (PDev /R&D/Pcom) requests regarding new filters, sticks, substrates or other product samples, in the respect of the agreed time scheduling, quality levels, safety/security standards following the prototyping process from material incoming to finished good with focus on the product.

Your ‘day to day’:

• Promote the Company’s Health, Safety and Environmental culture, transfers it into procedures and work instructions to discipline and monitor the team activities and keep an healthy and safe-conscious working environment, in order to minimize or eliminate risks exposure to personnel.

• Responsible to study the new products feasibility supporting S&I and Manufacturing Solution function, supporting to introduce innovative materials, develop new design, improve product performance and support affiliate during concept validation activities.

• Support Prototyping Technician during Prototype Samples production. Responsible to measure parameters identified on Spec Alignment phase during/after Prototype Samples production, moreover responsible to coordinate QLab measures and Quality Process Operators.

• Perform DIM characterizerion, increase product know-how during process and realize product characterization report. Update product know-how repository and periodically share within the team

• Ensure the appropriate involvement of Process Engineering and QE, MQA and QA spec department, providing the needed documentation and information about the new filter/stick/product, aiming to guarantee the definition and the next implementation of the industrial solution for an effective production start-up.

• Ensure professional relationship with peers, PM-MTB Industrialization, PMI- E, R&D and PDev teams about all the technical topics related to the projects under his/her responsibility. Assure a constant status update to Project Engineer/Leader in charge in order to allow the proper project coordination

Who we’re looking for:

• College/University or Professional Technical education
• At least 3 years of experience on industrial context or chemical & physical laboratory
• IT skills (Office).
• Fluent in English both written and spoken
• Strong communication, negotiation, ability to coach, technology & business process acumen, deal with ambiguity, managerial courage, result oriented, project management

What we offer:

Our success depends on the people 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 do things differently, 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 create a smoke free future.