Quality Implementation Specialist

Quality Implementation Specialist (R&D)

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Location: O Grove (hybrid)

Department: R&D

Position type: Permanent position

At Bolton Food, we are looking for a Quality Implementation Specialist to join our R&D team. This role plays a key part in ensuring the successful industrialization, implementation, and continuous improvement of products and processes, with a strong focus on quality, regulatory compliance, and time-to-market.

With a global vision and local execution, you will work closely with cross-functional teams across R&D, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain and external partners, contributing to both branded and private label projects while supporting innovation and process excellence in our plants.

What are you going to do

With a global mindset and local scope, you will lead and support:

• Optimize and validate products and processes related to own and private label references, from formulation to packaging, ensuring quality and proper implementation at plant level.
• Lead the industrialization of new products, managing trials, scale-ups, validations and ramp-up phases on production lines.
• Drive private label development projects, from formulation to packaging, ensuring compliance with customer specifications and internal standards, trials and approval flux.
• Standardize products and processes, creating technical guidelines, databases and best practices.
• Lead technology and process transfers between plants, ensuring equivalence in quality, yields and costs.
• Define technical specifications in collaboration with R&D, Quality, Maintenance and Supply teams.
• Provide technical assistance to existing and new production lines, resolving root causes using structured methodologies and statistical tools.
• Plan and manage multi-project portfolios, defining timelines, risks, KPIs and delivering executive project reporting.
• Support and participate in customer and third-party audits related to private label projects.
• Promote process standardization and continuous improvement initiatives across the plant.
• Propose new technologies, materials and automation solutions to improve quality, cost efficiency and service levels.
• Align local innovation initiatives with technical feasibility and production network capabilities.

What we are looking for

Education:

Degree in Engineering or similar (Industrial, Food, Chemical, Mechanical, Process Engineering or related fields).

Experience:

+3 years of experience in industrialization, NPD, technology transfer and/or process improvement in industrial environments.

Technical knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of quality and regulatory frameworks according to category (e.g. ISO 9001, BRC/IFS/HACCP for food).
• Advanced data analysis and digital tools (Excel / Google Sheets, Minitab or similar; Power BI is a plus).

Languages:

Professional level of English required. French and/or Italian will be positively valued.

Personal profile:

• Strong technical leadership with analytical thinking and results-oriented mindset.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Clear communicator with strong transversal collaboration skills.
• Customer-focused, with a continuous improvement and applied innovation mindset.
• Autonomous, structured and comfortable working in dynamic industrial environment.

What's interesting for you

A strategic role within a leading company in the food industry, with direct impact on product quality, industrial performance and innovation.

Professional growth and development in a dynamic, international and continuously evolving environment, working on both branded and private label projects.

High-impact technical ownership, where your expertise will directly influence industrialization success, process standardization and time-to-market.

Strong cross-functional exposure, collaborating with R&D, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain and external partners across the production network.

A platform to drive continuous improvement and applied innovation, transforming ideas into robust, scalable and high-quality industrial solutions.

Curiosity on Bolton

Bolton is a multinational family-owned company that enriches the hearts and homes of families worldwide with trusted brands. Present in over 150 countries, it employs 11,000 people in 55 offices, 17 factories, and 8 R&D laboratories. We foster growth in a culture where everyone collaborates and embraces the entrepreneurial spirit.

About Bolton Food

Bolton Food and Tri Marine is the Bolton business unit responsible for activities across the food supply chain. This includes managing a fleet of fishing vessels and promoting increasingly sustainable fisheries (alongside WWF and OXFAM) that prioritize marine ecosystem protection and surrounding communities. Production takes place through a network of specialized industrial plants worldwide. Through flagship brands like Cuca, Isabel, Rio Mare, and Saupiquet, the business unit also markets tasty, innovative, and carefully prepared food products enjoyed by millions of families worldwide.

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