Food Safety and Quality Specialist
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 and Quality Specialist will establish, maintain and audit procedures in support of leadership in order to assure compliance with all federal, state, existing regulatory and company quality systems. In this role, you will support a moderately complex facility by reviewing third party certifications and preparing responses to customer or inspection questions, reports and complaints arising from quality and food or product safety inspections.
Key Accountabilities
Promote food or product safety awareness across the factory to develop the competencies of plant professionals and assist others in topics related to food or product safety, hazard analysis and critical control points.
Assist others on topics related to food or product safety.
Define and update the specific quality procedures, instruction and tools which are directly related to food and product safety.
Conduct routine quantitative and qualitative inspections and laboratory tests on raw materials, in process and final products independently and support more complex trial
Conduct daily inspections of the plant for each of the critical control points and monitoring zones to ensure all monitors adhere to the written food or product safety programs.
Assist in the completion of internal and external, safety and quality audits including closing gaps in production and maintenance across a location with moderate complexity and identify and proactively address basic risk areas.
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
Experience with email, spreadsheet, presentation and word processing applications
Intermediate level of English (spoken and written), Intermediate level of Spanish (spoken and written)
Preferred Qualifications
Process methodology certification
Knowledge of regulations in the food or product manufacturing industry
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
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