Ice Cream Quality Engineer - Konya

Unilever is currently hiring for  Quality Engineer

Scope: Konya IC - Local

Reports to: Quality Manager

Location: Konya

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

If you are in the Unilever Ice Cream business or consider choosing to work for the Unilever Ice Cream business, you will work for the Global, leading Ice Cream player with €7.9bn Turn Over in 2023. The Ice Cream business is operating in a highly attractive category, as we are part of the 1 trillion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We have strong brands equities: 5 of top 10 selling brands including Wall’s, Magnum, Ben &Jerry’s. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen by November 2025.

Ice Cream has distinct characteristics from Unilever’s other operating businesses and the growth potential of Ice Cream will be better delivered under a different ownership structure. As Ice Cream company we are committed to developing and nurturing talent within our Ice Cream company. You will have options for career growth and exploration, allowing you for you to explore roles and opportunities across the new organisation. Your career development will be a priority for us, and we are dedicated to supporting your growth journey within the new company. We hope that you will want to build the new chapter of our Ice Cream history together with us.

Unilever Ice Cream is the world’s leading ice cream company, home to a portfolio of iconic brands like Magnum, Calippo, Solero, Festini, Talenti, and Yasso. We're committed to creating innovative products that bring unforgettable moments to our consumers—because, after all, “Life tastes better with ice cream.”

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, becoming an independent, EUR 8 billion single-category focused company by the end of 2025. This move reflects our belief in the power of our unique frozen footprint, which we see as having huge potential for growth as a pure-play business. Our focus is all about unlocking that potential, driving value for our consumers, customers, employees, and shareholders.

JOB PURPOSE:

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are keen to develop quality management skills; then this role is just for you!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deploys UL Quality strategy, governance and goals through SU specific projects and targets,
• Ensure that Unilever Quality Management System and Quality Digital Agenda is followed by SU Unit in his/her area of scope,

• Supports statistical process control tool implementation and process capability studies,
• Support Quality digitalization strategy, including Quality relevant digital tools, translate business need to functional requirement for the tools, and coordinate roll-out & implementation,
• Supports data collection, analysis and assignment to standard Quality loss trees in support of operational KPIs reporting,
• Coordinate Quality Pillar as part of the newly launched UMS Program,
• Collect, monitor, and manage required information, provide analysis,
• Reporting and presenting outputs with regular updates,
• Handling operational issues when they arise.
• To cooperate with production & engineering & planning teams to have proper procedures for the adherence to the plan.
• To prepare ICQA for export products and representing quality in export product projects
• Support ISO 9001 & FSSC & GMP implementations in relation to requirements of certification bodies.
• Provide leadership for developing and directing Product Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement initiatives throughout the whole Supply Chain.
• New products and new processes, cooperate with R&D and Engineering to make sure that all requirements are defined to ensure that production team can produce accordingly with the expected targets

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

SKILLS:

• Fluent in English & Turkish, both written and spoken
• Digital native, analytical ability, and Statistical Process Control
• Flexibility to adapt to different situations and ways of working
• Problem solving and continuous improvement process

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Quality or Supply Chain.
• University degree in science or engineering fields, preferably food engineering.
• Standard MS Office tools knowledge is a must.

LEADERSHIP: 

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.