Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Regional Specialist III will support regional teams with food safety and quality issues. In this role, you will collaborate with customers, regulators, suppliers and other key internal and external partners to resolve issues. You will oversee and execute incident management practices, assist facilities in the maintenance and 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.
• Contribute to closing of identified gaps at facilities and external manufacturers to bring locations into compliance.
• Help track monthly business metrics and develop a process to improve understanding of the health of the food safety and quality systems at each facility.
• Define the company's customer complaint tracking and trending program to ensure proper complaint follow up and ensure that high priority complaints are dealt with urgently.
• Assist facilities with corrective actions related to product quality and lead the investigation and follow up of customer complaints.
• Collaborate with plant managers and other facility leaders commercial leaders, project teams and external manufacturers to build and foster an effective food safety, quality and regulatory culture. Drive focus on corrective a preventative action implementation.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, chemistry, microbiology, quality assurance or other applicable field or equivalent experience.
• Project management skills
• Ability to make decisions under pressure
• Leadership, motivational, and interpersonal effectiveness skills
• Ability to translate and communicate analytical data and technical knowledge to technical and non-technical, internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience handling a large workload with multiple priorities.
• Experience with food manufacturing environments.
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in science, chemistry, microbiology, quality assurance, business or other applicable field
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Laboratory knowledge, including Good Laboratory Practice and instrumentation
• Minimum of 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