Food Safety and Quality Associate
Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargill’s animal nutrition and health business, where we improve animal lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Specialist I, will ensure internal collaboration and connectivity for all policies, standards and trainings. In this role, you will partner with contacts to assist with compliance and customer specification issues. You will also work closely with the location to coordinate and plan programs that fall under food safety, quality and regulatory areas.
Key Accountabilities
- Perform inspection of finished or in process goods, analyze data and identify trends in defects or errors.
- Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities or other quality failures.
- Coordinate department functions that include continuous improvement processes, compliance to audits and assisting with customer specifications and quality issues.
- Ensure environmental health and safety training and new procedure implementation are executed and completed timely and accurately.
- Assist with related training development and scheduling.
- Provide training, coaching and mentoring to team members.
- Plan, coordinate and direct all regulatory compliance, laboratory, food and feed safety and quality programs within the location to ensure compliance with customer, supplier and government requirements and expectations.
- Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Able to lift 50 pounds with or without accommodation and comfortable moving around in a manufacturing plant.
- Moderate computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, and database navigation).
Preferred Qualifications
- SAP experience.
- WMS experience.
- Experience leading cross functional teams.
- Experience in a feed manufacturing facility.
- Minimum of 1 years of laboratory experience.
Position Information
- Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
- Location: Lewisburg, OH
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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