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Proposed job title: Welding & Coating Quality Specialist

The opportunity: 

Join Hitachi Energy and contribute to delivering world-class quality solutions for the railway industry. In this role, you will drive excellence in welding and painting quality across our supplier base and manufacturing operations, ensuring compliance with international standards such as EN 15085 and ISO 5817. Working closely with suppliers and cross-functional teams, you will help enhance product reliability, support continuous improvement, and resolve quality challenges to enable safe and sustainable business growth. This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact on customer satisfaction, operational performance, and the delivery of high-quality products that power a more sustainable future.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Be the key guardian of welding and painting quality control, ensuring every product meets the highest industry and customer standards
• Drive compliance with ISO 5817, and EN 15085 requirements while identifying and preventing quality deviations before they impact product performance and customer satisfaction
• Collaborate with cross functional organization teams to improve processes, strengthen product reliability, and support a culture of continuous improvement. Your expertise will directly contribute to safe, durable, and world-class manufactured products.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

•  Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with a minimum of 6 years of experience in welding and painting quality inspection.
•  ASNT/ISO Visual Testing (VT) and Penetrant Testing (PT) certifications are preferred.
•  Experience in the railway industry is highly preferred.
•  Strong knowledge of EN 15085 welding quality requirements, with the ability to interpret engineering drawings, Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS), and Welding Procedure Qualification Records (WPQR).
•  Sound understanding of ISO 5817 welding acceptance criteria and inspection requirements.
•  Maintain accurate inspection records, quality checklists, and compliance documentation to ensure traceability, audit readiness, and adherence to regulatory and customer requirements.
•  Demonstrate flexibility and a willingness to travel regularly to supplier sites, providing timely inspection support to meet production and customer delivery commitments, including during weekends and public holidays when business needs require.
•  Support the designated quality owner in the investigation, resolution, and closure of non-conformities (NCs) and customer complaints, driving effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

Accessibility and reasonable accommodation

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Use of Al and automated tools in recruitment

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Background Screening and Security Checks

As part of the hiring process, Hitachi Energy conducts pre-employment background checks that may include verification of employment history, education, criminal records, and other relevant information, in accordance with applicable laws.

For certain roles—particularly those involving access to sensitive information, financial responsibilities, client data, regulated environments, or security-sensitive functions—additional or more comprehensive background or security screenings may be required. These may include, but are not limited to, enhanced criminal history checks, credit history reviews (where legally permissible), sanctions screening, or other due diligence measures aligned with the responsibilities of the position.

The scope and depth of any background or security review will be determined based on the nature of the role and business necessity, and will always be conducted in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Candidates will be notified and, where required, asked to provide consent prior to the initiation of any such checks.