Food Safety and Quality Lactic Specialist
Food Safety and Quality Lactic Specialist
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Job Description
Cargills 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 160000 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 Cargills food and bioindustrialbusiness where manufacturers retailers and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety and Quality Lactic Specialist will provide specialized knowledge of specific segments of quality systems or plant processes such as food safety and quality auditing instrumentation specific lactic acid product line knowledge computer systems management or oversight of suppliers and other needed focus this role you will work together with internal and external teams to address customer requirements and concerns as well as collaborate on external audits.
Key Accountabilities
Audit production processes raw materials or suppliers and vendors to ensure that established quality standards are met.
Work closely with cross functional teams including Food Safety Quality and production to identify mitigate quality risks and provide with training as required.
Conduct root cause analysis for defects nonconformities or other quality failures.
Ensure compliance with formal external and internal quality standards.
Provide management of specific segments of quality and food safety management systems and provide continuous improvement support for operations or other functional areas where needed.
Investigate and responds to customer complaints and provide guidance.
Lead the nonconforming materials program for the plant and other plant specific activities.
Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned
Position Information
Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
Qualifications
Minimum Required
Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of two years of related work experience
Excellent communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills
Strong analytical skills
Proven experience in prioritizing work and meeting deadlines
Ability to work off schedule hours to support manufacturing environment
Preferred
Bachelors degree in Chemistry or Microbiology
Three years in laboratory knowledge including Good Laboratory Practice and instrumentation
Experience with SAP or similar
Experience with PI Power BI and Data Analysis
Knowledge about certification schemes e.g. HACCP ISO 22000 GMP
Ability to balance and achieve positive results in the areas of food safety quality safety productivity and cost.
Ability to handle multiple priorities with large projects extending over a period of time
Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vet
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
