R&D Product Development Specialist

Job Description

We’re hiring a Product Development Specialist to join our R&D Coffee Machines Development & Production team!

Are you passionate about how mechanical systems work? Excited by the idea of contributing to innovative technologies that shape the future of coffee at home? ☕✨ This could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!

🎯 What you will do:

• Design & Development Support ideation, mechanical design, prototyping, and deployment of components and systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance.
• System Integration Collaborate with cross‑functional R&D teams (mechanics, hydraulics, electronics, HMI) to develop robust and cohesive system architectures.
• Technical Documentation Manage product specifications, BOMs, and technical drawings using PTC Creo and Windchill (training provided).
• Innovation & Sustainability Research emerging technologies and propose innovative, sustainable solutions for household products.
• Suppliers & Partners Contribute to supplier scouting, technical evaluations, and on‑site collaboration—availability for occasional travel required.
• Standards & Knowledge Sharing Support the development of design standards, documentation, and internal best practices.
• Change Process & KPIs Assist with change requests and monitor key KPIs such as on‑time delivery, functional non‑conformities, innovation metrics, and platform economics (COGS, Payback, NPV).

🧩 Requirements

• Proven experience in product development or similar mechanical roles (e.g., mechanical designer/engineer, prototyping/lab test support, junior product engineer).

  Solid understanding of mechanical principles (mechanics of materials, mechanical components, basic fluid dynamics/hydraulics).

• Ability to grasp how mechanical systems function and how components interact.

• Problem‑solving mindset, attention to detail, and comfort interpreting data/KPIs.

• Strong collaboration skills and willingness to work with multidisciplinary teams.

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**✨ In Return We Offer **

• Comprehensive welfare package including short working week during summer months
• Hybrid working policy (10 days a month remote working)
• Company restaurant service
• Access to our corporate gym
• A fast paced and dynamic international context

**☕ Who We Are

**Our Group was founded in Turin in 1895, has been owned by the Lavazza family for four generations. As one of the world’s most important coffee roasters, we operate in more than 140 countries through our brands, subsidiaries and distributors, with a total of over 5,500 employees.

Every day we operate in all sectors of the coffee industry, offering our products through every channel and positioning our brands as a high-quality blend.

We are a community of single origins united into a perfect blend, humans enriching one another through our mutual diversity.

**Awakening a better world every morning: the commitment we make every single day.

**#torino§ #LI_SC1