Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Specialist (Pet Premix) will provide specialized knowledge of specific segments of quality systems or plant processes such as food safety and quality auditing, instrumentation, specific product line knowledge, computer systems, management or oversight of suppliers and other needed focus areas. In this role, you will be involved in preparation and participation of customer audits and you will work together with internal and external teams to address customer requirements and concerns as well as collaborate on 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 product management and production, to identify and mitigate quality risks.
Collaborates with operations on the initiation of corrective action and preventative measures when necessary.
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 management systems and provide continuous improvement support for operations or other functional areas where needed.
Investigate and respond 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

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Strong analytical skills
Proven experience in prioritizing work and meeting deadlines
Minimum of two years of related work experience
Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred
Experience in conducting food safety audits
Experience with pet food or premix programs 
Experience with the Food Safety System Certification 22000
Experience working with SAP or similar

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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