Plant Quality Manager

Somfygroup; Schio; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Somfy Group, based in Schio, seeks a Plant Quality Manager to oversee Customer, Project, Supplier, and Manufacturing quality. The role reports to the Site Director and Group Quality Function, driving quality strategy and ensuring compliance with internal policies and external standards.

The position requires a senior professional with a track record in manufacturing quality, capability to lead change, and strong collaboration across functions.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a similar manufacturing role at an international company.
• Fluent in English and Italian.

Responsibilities

• Deploy the quality strategy across the plant and develop a 3–5 year road map.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and ensure quality processes meet Somfy Group standards.
• Own KPI reporting, risk analysis and action plans to resolve quality issues.
• Manage budget and participate in forecasts and revisions.
• Collaborate with all functions (Project, Quality, Marketing, Purchasing, etc.).
• Represent the Quality Department in cross-functional projects and ensure implementation of quality practices.
• Support and develop the quality team and promote a culture of customer satisfaction.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic mindset

Fluent in English

Fluent in Italian

Cross-functional collaboration

Openess to external stakeholders

Ability to interact with external 's'

Education

Master's degree in engineering

Tools

Office Suite (Excel)

Job description

The Plant Quality Manager, reporting hierarchically to the Site Director of Schio Plant and functionally to the Group Quality Function, will oversee all the activities within the Quality Function of the plant including such as Customer Quality, Project Quality, Supplier Quality Assurance and Manufacturing and Supply chain Quality.

Mission of the position:

The Plant Quality Manager aims to ensure that products manufactured fit for purpose and meet both external and internal requirements. This includes legal compliance, internal and customer expectations. He/She coordinates the activities required to meet these quality standards.

The Plant Quality Manager is concerned by monitoring and advising on the performance of the quality management system, producing data and reporting on performance, measuring against set standards.

In this positon he/she will need to liaise with other managers and staff throughout the organization to ensure that the quality management system is functioning properly.

Where appropriate, he/she will advise on changes and how to implement them and provide training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve quality standards.

Job is done in co-ordination, agreement and consistency with relevant Somfy Group management and functions.

Main Responsibilities:

• Deployment of the group's quality strategy in his/her scope: develop, maintain and improve internal quality processes and define the medium and long-term roadmap (3-5 years), ensuring compliance of processes with internal Somfy policies and standards;
• Develop excellence in one's function by implementing the necessary action and continuous improvement plans;
• Customer satisfaction: ensure proper customer and intra-department satisfaction level;
• Ensure compliance with processes and contribute to risk analysis, developing quality management process that minimize risks;
• Define the budgetary framework for its activity and manage it: participate in budget, forecasts and revisions preparation; doing necessary adjustments as per company situation and Somfy Group requirement;
• Performance management: set up Quality KPI and maintain periodic reporting; organize clear, quick internal & external communication to any quality related issue; decide and drive immediate & preventive actions to quality issues, personally drives quality problems (QP);
• Represent the Quality Department within cross-functional projects and ensure its implementation and contribute its business expertise to the Group's major projects;
• Guarantee the smooth running of its business and the Group's other activities, in particular by engaging its teams in transversality and cooperation;
• People management: support employees in his team in their mission and their development, setting clear objectives and providing constructive feedbacks;
• Embodied and Promoted the culture of Customer Satisfaction and continuous improvement as well as the sharing of good practices.

Master's degree in engineering school type;

Minimum required experience in the role: 10 years on similar position in manufacturing international company.

Technical Skills:

• 8D methodology, FMEA Design and Process;
• Statistic mindset;
• Product/Process validation Plan;
• Supplier contract and relationship management;
• Control plan, safe launch concept, Process Flow Diagram;
• Manufacturing process Audit (internal & external);
• Product and Process modification and process management;
• Deviation request process management;
• Norms & regulations (ROHS, UL, etc.);
• Ability to build continuous improvement roadmap;
• ISO 9001 e 14001;
• Office Suite (Excel...)
• Fluent in English;
• Fluent in Italian.

Soft skills:

• Leadership;
• Ability to engage and support change;
• Openess to external stakeholders;
• Ability to interact with external partners (Customer/Supplier..etc)
• Strategic Mindset (ability to translate strategic orientation in the daily job).

The position is based in Schio, but ready to travel to other Italian sites and periodically to the Headquarter in France.

Work Relationships:

This position works with domain team, all departments (Project, Quality, Marketing, Distribution, Management Control, Purchasing, etc..), external partners (Suppliers, Customers, Regulatory bodies, Service Providers, etc).

The protection of our candidates' personal data is a commitment of Somfy Group. We therefore ask any candidate to submit their application to us exclusively via our secure system, and not by email or postal.