Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory Facility Manager will support site team members in their facility with food safety and quality issues. We seek a multifaceted professional to collaborate with customers, regulators, suppliers and other key internal and external partners to resolve issues. In this role, you will lead and/or support incident management, lead the maintenance and support execution of the Food Safety Management System, document management, complaint management and trending, and all compliance requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and lead the implementation of key food safety management system programs, such as management of change and critical food safety tasks and facilitation of audits.
• Contribute to closing of identified gaps at facility to bring into compliance.
• Help track monthly facility and business metrics and develop a process to improve understanding of the health of the food safety and quality systems.
• Define our customer complaint tracking and trending program, ensuring proper complaint follow-up, ensuring high priority complaints are dealt with urgently.
• Lead activities to close corrective actions related to product quality. Lead the investigation and follow-up of customer complaints.
• Collaborate with other facility leaders to build and foster an effective food safety, quality and regulatory culture. Drive focus on corrective a preventative action implementation.
• Define and lead the onboarding process for our location leaders.
• Lead and develop a team supporting food safety and quality programs.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Ability to translate and communicate analytical data and technical knowledge to technical and non-technical, internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience with food manufacturing environments.
• Ability to climb stairs and ladders periodically

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in science, chemistry, microbiology, quality assurance, business or other applicable field
• Laboratory knowledge, including Good Laboratory Practice and instrumentation
• Eight or more years of working experience with four or more years in a technical related field.

Cargill highly encourages vaccinations but does not mandate at this time. Upon hire, you will be asked to provide your vaccination status, and if unvaccinated or if you choose not to disclose, you would be expected to follow Cargill’s safety protocols for unvaccinated employees (i.e., mask mandates, and social distancing).

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet