Quality Assurance Packaging Specialist

Location: Samut Sakhon

Job purpose:

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Packaging Specialist to lead and support quality assurance activities across assigned plants or clusters within the Ambient Manufacturing Business Unit. This role is responsible for ensuring that products, packaging, and production processes meet quality, food safety, regulatory, customer, environmental, and sustainability requirements.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead Quality Assurance activities for packaging and ambient manufacturing operations across assigned plants or clusters.
• Ensure products, packaging, and production processes meet quality, food safety, regulatory, customer, environmental, and sustainability standards.
• Implement BU Quality strategy, standards, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives at plant level.
• Monitor quality performance, analyze data, and drive improvement actions to reduce defects, complaints, and non-quality costs.
• Oversee inspection plans, testing methods, quality control procedures, and risk assessments for raw materials, semi-finished goods, finished goods, and new products.
• Manage audit findings, non-conformities, corrective actions, and preventive actions to ensure timely closure and compliance.
• Lead investigation and resolution of quality issues, customer complaints, and cross-functional quality incidents.
• Work closely with Production, Engineering, Commercial, QMS, and plant teams to strengthen quality systems and resolve issues effectively.
• Promote best practice sharing, quality mindset, and continuous improvement culture across the organization.
• Lead, coach, and develop the QA team to build strong capability, performance, and succession readiness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Food Science, Food Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the food industry or packaging industry
  (New graduates are welcome)
• Strong background in Quality Assurance or Quality Control functions.
• Knowledge of quality standards and compliance regulations
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Good command of spoken and written English.