Quality Assurance Manager Bari Factory - SKF Automotive Business

By creating bearings and solutions for everything from industrial applications to vehicles, SKF plays an essential role in our everyday lives. In Q4 2026, SKF intends to spin off its Automotive business and list it as a separate company under the name of SKF Vertevo. A company created to support the future of the automotive market, and to co-drive the future of mobility faster.

This role will be a part of that new company. Would you like to join us, and move people further?

Quality Assurance Manager

Bari Factory - SKF Automotive Business

The Quality Assurance Manager reports to the Factory Manager and is part of the factory leadership team. The role is responsible for the factory’s overall quality performance and positions quality as a key driver of transformation, competitiveness, and growth.

Key responsibilities

• Drive quality performance and customer satisfaction by representing the voice of the customer, managing audits, and supporting sales on quality issues.

• Maintain and strengthen the quality system by ensuring compliance with processes, products, and regulations.

• Contribute to industrialization projects from design to production launch, ensuring robust technical choices and successful launches.

• Manage the extended quality chain, including supplier quality, risk management, and product/process changes.

• Accelerate continuous improvement by deploying the quality roadmap, leading improvement plans, monitoring KPIs, and supporting SPS certification.

Team management: The role directly manages a team of two staff members covering metrology, supplier quality, incoming inspection, and quality assurance.

Requirements

• Strong leadership and change management skills.

• An engineering background or equivalent experience in quality, industrial performance, or a technical field.

• Proven experience in an automotive environment.

• Knowledge of IATF 16949 and supplier audit frameworks.

• Familiarity with 5S, Lean management, and continuous improvement methods.

• Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and English language skills.

You will enjoy working here if you…

• Thrive in a leadership role driving quality excellence and continuous improvement.

• Enjoy collaborating across teams to deliver outstanding customer satisfaction and operational performance.

• Are passionate about transforming manufacturing processes in a fast-paced automotive environment.

If you want to go further

The position is based in Bari, Italy.

Apply with your CV in English throughout the system, no later than the 9th of August. We will screen candidates continuously, so make sure to submit your application as soon as possible.

If you want to know more about SKF Automotive business, please visit our webpage : SKF Automotive: Bearings & aftermarket solutions since 1907

Transparency and fairness matter to us

At SKF, we see diversity in our workforce as an asset that supports better business results. We are committed to having a fair and inclusive recruitment process where all hiring decisions are based on objective, job-related criteria, ensuring equal opportunities for all candidates.

To support a fair and transparent recruitment process, the process may include assessments, and before hiring, we may also carry out background checks and verify application information.

For this position, the starting point of the salary range is a gross annual salary (base salary) of €54.000. The compensation package also includes company performance-related bonuses.

The National Labor Contract applied is “CCNL Industria Metalmeccanica”.

During the first interview, we discuss your salary expectations and explain more about the package. Our final offer will be based on an objective and gender-neutral evaluation of your experience, skills, and potential, aligned with the scope of the role and our internal salary guidelines. Our recruitment process may differ from country to country and will always be in line with applicable country-specific laws and regulations.

Come as you are – just be yourself. #weareSKF