Quality Engineer - Food Safety & Validation

Colgate Palmolive; Castiglione delle Stiviere; Hybrid; EUR 39,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Meal vouchers

Job summary

Colgate-Palmolive in Castiglione delle Stiviere, Lombardy, Italy seeks a Quality Engineer to lead quality and food safety improvements across production processes. You will define and implement procedures, support technology transfer, and ensure compliance with HACCP, GMP and CCNL requirements.

The role requires a degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering or related fields, 1–3 years in manufacturing, fluency in Italian and English, and strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/BA/BS degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Mechatronics or related field.
• Basic proficiency with statistical process control, metrology, HACCP, GMP, basic microbiology, quality auditing.
• 1–3 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment.
• 3–5 years of experience preferably in the pharma/ cosmetics/ food industry or consultancy companies with a focus on validation activities.
• Fluent in Italian language and in English language

Responsibilities

• Defines, develops, investigates, advises and implements new, modified or improved quality and food safety procedures and work methods related to production processes, ingredients, formulations, specifications and continuous improvement processes, product commissioning and capital projects.
• Provides training and instruction.
• Leads Management of Change (MoC), commissioning and validation activities as per specific responsibilities.
• Responsible for monitoring the implementation of CAPA / non-conformance programs to meet standards expectations and regulatory requirements and communicating results to site teams.
• Investigates and troubleshoots any quality issues. Shares acquired knowledge and quality expertise inside and outside the manufacturing location.
• Optimizes and improves current quality performance and knowledge; alignment with Global Hill's and C/P quality standards and best practices.
• Coordinates follow-up meetings to assess the status of change management initiated on site, monitor status of activities to meet deadlines defined in MOC program, update site teams on status.
• Responsible for Technology Transfer (TT) activities in the site: introducing new feeds and improving recipes.
• Assists in the implementation of all legislative and corporate food safety standards as well as HACCP, GMP and regulatory initiatives.
• Analyzes plant Quality KPI's, Cpk data and commissioning results. Defines improvement activities based on the results.
• Participates in and initiates FP&R and other continuous improvement programs within the plant.
• Facilitates training, sharing of ideas / knowledge and best practices to improve processes and sole problems

Skills

Italian language

English language

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

B.A./B.S. degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Mechatronics or related field

Tools

Google Suite

Microsoft Office

SAP

Job description

Colgate-Palmolive in Castiglione delle Stiviere, Lombardy, Italy seeks a Quality Engineer to lead quality and food safety improvements across production processes. You will define and implement procedures, support technology transfer, and ensure compliance with HACCP, GMP and CCNL requirements.

The role requires a degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering or related fields, 1–3 years in manufacturing, fluency in Italian and English, and strong analytical and communication skills.