Job Purpose and Impact

A Site Food Safety Specialist is responsible for the consistency of Food, Safety, Quality and Regulatory policies and standards at local site. You will be responsible for the development and continuous improvement of food safety processes and systems, implementing policies within the business, ensuring and auditing compliance, and customer specifications and quality issues.

Key Accountabilities

• Performs prevention activities and issue resolution for the site to ensure consistency and collaboration.
• Directs work with suppliers/external manufacturers.
• Accountable for completion of facility audits and proactively anticipates risks and preventative actions.
• Develop, implement and assess food safety processes and systems for facilities and drives continuous improvements.
• Conducts root cause analysis for defects, non-conformities, or other quality failures.
• Ensures compliance with formal external and internal quality standards.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group.
• 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 a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Knowledge of food safety concepts, policies, hazard analysis and risk mitigation
• Food industry experience
• Project Management experience
• Demonstrated technical and leadership and relationship building skills
• Experience in Sanitation – building Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), validation of cleaning
• Pest control management experience
• Environmental monitoring experiene
• Experience in building and structuring Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans
• Flexible to work on nights, weekends or holidays as needed

Preferred Qualification

• Operations experience
• Understanding of statistical process control programs
• Experience applying intermediate auditing and quality compliance skills to identify and manage risks/compliance
• Experience interacting with state and federal regulators
• Engineering experience
• Experience with Dietary supplement or API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient)
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Microbiology experience

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