PLANT QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER

Padova

Plant Quality Assurance Manager

Your Role We are looking for a person who wants to undertake a professional path starting from the role of Plant Quality Assurance Manager for our Padua Plant

The Plant Quality Assurance Manager supervises and coordinates the activities required to meet the standards of Quality & Food Safety of finished and semi-finished products produced at the plant. The role owns the plant Quality Management System, ensures product release governance, drives continuous improvement of quality performance, leads to quality risk prevention and acts as the key escalation point for quality and food safety incidents at site level.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage, oversee, and coordinate matters related to hygiene, food safety and product quality.

• Ensure, through their organization, full compliance of all plant activities with national and EU regulations concerning the safety and quality of food products placed on the market by the plant.

• Be responsible for providing the necessary resources to achieve high-quality standards.

• Ensure all products meet regulatory and company standards.

• Owns the plant Quality Management System, ensuring procedures are updated, implemented, trained and effectively applied across the site.

• Manage relationships with local authorities such as the Health Authority (ASL, NAS, ICQRF), and coordinates inspections, requests and follow-up actions in cooperation with the relevant internal stakeholders.

• Being member of the crisis committee in the event of product incidents requiring market withdrawal, leading site-level quality incident management, ensures robust root cause analysis, coordinates containment and corrective actions, supports withdrawal/recall processes and ensures lessons learned are embedded.

• Plan, prepare and manage internal and external audits, ensures timely closure of findings and verifies CAPA effectiveness.

• Responsible for training and developing plant staff on quality control processes, food safety requirements, GMP, hygiene standards and relevant quality procedures. Ensures training effectiveness and supports the development of Quality Culture across the site.

• Drive Plant Quality Performance according to the Asahi Quality Scorecard

• Work with suppliers through the central quality assurance team to ensure the quality of raw materials, with Cleaning and Pest suppliers

• Ensure actions are risk-based, assigned to clear owners, closed on time and verified for effectiveness.

• Management and minimization of Customer & Consumer quality claims

• Responsible for the productivity and quality of the work carried out by the Plant Quality team

• Ensuring that the finished product released to the market complies with all the required Quality & Food Safety standards.

What You’ll Bring

• Master’s degree in biology, chemistry, or similar

• Experience of almost 8 years in manufacturing company (Food & Beverage or FMCG as plus), including quality control role

• Excellent knowledge in microbiologic and analytics methodology

• Experience in Certification of Quality & Environment System

• Proficiency in English and Italian - written and spoken.

• Capacity to work in team and manage complex situations;

• Strong determination and results driven

• Experience in people management

Contract & Compensation

• A permanent contract

• CCNL Industria Alimentare

• Gross annual base salary starting from € 60.000

In Return We Offer

• Flexible working model, allowing you to organize your time autonomously according to your objectives and priorities

• Extra Professional Injury Insurance

• Enhanced Parental Policy, including an additional 10 days of paid paternity leave beyond statutory requirements and a welcome gift for newborns

• Access to our comprehensive welfare plan with employee discounts through Corporate Benefits and our Loyalty Program

• Wellbeing plans to support and promote physical and mental health, through dedicated programs such as Well Hub and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Monthly free beer of your choice and exclusive product discounts

• Company canteen

• The chance to grow within an international, dynamic and engaging context

• Structured onboarding program to support your induction and integration into the company

Where? Our Padua Brewery!

Environment That You Will find We are committed to nurturing a workplace where we celebrate and respect differences, and support everyone to be true to who they are! At Asahi Europe and International we believe you can SHINE AS YOU ARE - no matter what your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We want to support you to be courageous in your individuality and to know that whoever you are and whatever your circumstances, you can belong with us without having to conform.

What Next?

• Our Talent Acquisition Team will assess your application and if you have what we’re looking for, you'll be contacted for an initial phone call.

• If we like what we hear, you’ll be invited to an interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team and your future Manager!