Lab Analyst

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business, and building our future on smoke-free products with the power 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. 
PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning. 

Your ‘day to day’:

As Lab Analyst you will be part of our Quality department for Philip Morris Manufacturing & Technology Bologna S.p.A.

The position will be based in Crespellano (BO).
A key responsibility is to apply well-defined methods and work instructions to perform routine analyses and technical activities to ensure that all raw materials, semi-finished and finished products are appropriately analyzed and monitored. 
You will ensure that instruments are calibrated for accuracy, precision and reliability of the analysis. You also will carry out calibration and/or calibration verification and collaborative test on instruments and materials (Raw Materials, Finished Goods and semi-finished) to monitor the instruments and materials performances. 

Your Responsibilities:

• Execute quality plans and perform physical/chemical tests on raw materials, semi-finished, and finished products. Guarantee accurate and timely reporting in the laboratory management system.


• Operate, verify, and calibrate laboratory equipment per PMI and ISO requirements, maintaining logbooks and resolving deviations using problem-solving tools.


• Manage non-conformities and implement corrective/preventive actions. Update and standardize procedures to improve quality processes.


• Ensure full compliance with PMI and legal standards on Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability, promoting a proactive safety culture.


• Contribute to projects impacting product quality, ensuring compliance with QMS and ISO 9001/17025 standards.


• Manage retention samples and ensure proper data recording for full traceability.


• Share relevant information to support smooth quality processes and team productivity.

Who we’re looking for:

• Master’s degree in chemistry (or equivalent disciplines) 


• Knowledge in MS Office Package.


• Knowledge of International standards (ISO). Advanced knowledge on Quality tools, root cause analysis, analytical skills, statistical tool knowledge. Ability to transform data into information (reporting skills).


• Upper-intermediate English

Contract type: Fixed-term, duration 6 months 

What we offer:

Our success depends on people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress.

Join PMI and you can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, 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 improve the lives of a billion smokers.

PM MTB is Philip Morris International’s Center of excellence, worldwide recognized for prototyping, mass-volume production and employees’ training on smoke-free products. PM MTB  production site of Crespellano is one of the most advanced manufacturing venues in Italy for technology innovation, competencies development and talent recognition. In 2023, Philip Morris Manufacturing & Technology Bologna has been awarded as Top Employer for the ninth year in a row. We also granted the Equal Salary Certification certificate by the homonymous foundation to certify that men and women are paid equally for equivalent work.
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. You’ll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world: a smoke-free world