Quality Engineer

Requisition ID177023-Posted10/26/2026-Quality-Italy-Lombardia-Castiglione delle Stiviere-Hill's Pet Nutrition-Travel - up to 10% of time-On-site

No Relocation Assistance Offered

Job Number#177023 - Castiglione delle Stiviere, Lombardia, Italy

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under globally recognized brands. We are celebrated for our leadership in sustainability, community wellbeing, and our unwavering commitment to living our core values.

Global People professionals are consistently drawn to Colgate-Palmolive by the exceptional opportunities for career advancement and a strong alignment with our purpose-driven company Values: We are Caring, We are Inclusive, We are Courageous . Within our Global People function, we foster a culture of high trust and autonomy, ensuring you feel empowered to make impactful decisions and directly influence our broader strategic priorities while building a fulfilling, long-term career.

Title: Quality Engineer

Role Summary

The Quality Engineer is responsible for the development, testing and implementation of improvements in quality and food safety programs. The position is responsible for investigating quality and food safety risk areas and taking appropriate action i.e. initiate actions for improvements of product quality and manufacturing processes, work instructions, procedures and work methods. The Quality Engineer provides support for the technology transfer and validation programs and assists in the delivery of training and instructions concerning the quality & validation learnings, work procedures and instructions. The Quality engineer is responsible to ensure conformance with C/P and Hill's quality & food safety programs and operational standards

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 (structural and incidental) 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

Required Qualifications

• Basic qualifications: B.A./B.S. degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Mechatronics or related field.
• Basic proficiency / experience 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