Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
The role will provide strong operational support to the COE by coordinating with site quality teams, manufacturing, R&D/NPD, supply chain, commercial teams, customers and certification bodies to ensure timely resolution of escalations, effective implementation of quality systems and robust follow-up of improvement actions.
- Act as the first point of escalation for day-to-day quality issues raised by India sites and cross-functional teams, ensuring timely coordination, follow-up and closure.
- Support the Quality COE Lead / Head of Quality in driving quality governance, standardisation and continual improvement across India operations covering 5 Flexible Packaging units, 2 Cylinder units and 3 PS Labels units.
- Facilitate implementation and compliance of Quality Management System requirements across sites, including ISO, BRCGS, FSC, customer-specific standards, SMETA / Sedex and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate customer audits, certification audits and regulatory audit readiness at sites, including pre-audit preparation, action tracking and closure verification.
- Support customer interactions for escalations, complaints, audits, quality reviews and improvement discussions, in coordination with site and commercial teams.
- Strengthen root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions and complaint reduction practices by reviewing major complaints, facilitating structured RCA and monitoring CAPA effectiveness.
- Support implementation of change control management across sites for product, process, material, supplier, artwork, specification and regulatory changes.
- Coordinate with R&D/NPD, plant quality and operations teams for new product development quality support, specification validation, shade card governance and first-time-right execution.
- Drive and support Zero Defect Campaign, First Time Right initiatives and defect reduction projects by tracking actions, identifying trends and supporting site-level implementation.
- Standardise SOPs, quality processes, checklists and best practices across plants in alignment with COE priorities.
- Track and analyse quality KPIs including complaints, rejection rates, audit scores, FTR performance, defect trends, CAPA ageing and recurrence patterns.
- Prepare monthly management review dashboards and leadership presentation slides with clear data insights, trends, risks and recommended actions.
- Support regulatory compliance initiatives related to food contact packaging, customer requirements, material compliance and site-level implementation of regulatory actions.
- Coordinate supplier quality and vendor audit follow-ups where required, especially for escalated material quality issues impacting sites or customers.
- Provide training, coaching and guidance to site quality teams on standards, RCA/CAPA, audit readiness, change control, FTR and best practices.
- Support digitisation, automation and ERP quality module improvements in the quality domain as an added responsibility / advantage area.
- Travel to India sites and customer locations as required for escalations, audits, reviews, improvement projects and implementation support.
- Conduct periodic reviews with sites and COE leadership to monitor progress of escalations, audit actions, CAPA closure, improvement projects and compliance deliverables.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.
Skills Required
- Experience with Quality Management Systems (ISO, BRCGS, FSC, SMETA/Sedex)
- Experience coordinating customer, certification and regulatory audits
- Skilled in root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions (RCA/CAPA) and complaint reduction
- Experience implementing change control for product, process, material, supplier, artwork and specifications
- Experience supporting new product development quality activities and first-time-right execution
- Ability to track and analyse quality KPIs and prepare management review dashboards and presentations
- Experience in supplier quality management and vendor audit follow-ups
- Knowledge of food contact packaging regulatory compliance and customer-specific requirements
- Willingness to travel to India sites and customer locations as required
- Experience standardising SOPs, checklists and quality processes across multiple plants
- Experience with ERP quality modules, digitisation or automation (advantage area)
Huhtamaki Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Huhtamaki and has not been reviewed or approved by Huhtamaki.
-
Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive with dental and vision options, and employer contributions toward premiums are portrayed as generous. Feedback suggests this breadth makes the overall package feel competitive for many roles.
-
Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with pre‑tax and Roth options, with certain groups also having access to a pension and even deferred compensation. Feedback suggests these features stand out positively in a manufacturing context.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and generous parental leave are emphasized alongside meaningful PTO accruals. Feedback suggests this leave structure strengthens perceived total rewards even where base pay is viewed as only fair.
Huhtamaki Insights
What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030. We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
