Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory Lead

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.

About the role

The Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Lead (1st and 3rd shift) will ensure internal collaboration and connectivity for all policies, standards, and trainings. In this role, you will partner with contacts to assist with compliance and customer specification issues. You will also work closely with the location to coordinate and plan programs that fall under food safety, quality, and regulatory areas.

Responsibilities

• Perform inspection of finished or in-process goods, analyze data, and identify trends in defects or errors.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities, or other quality failures.
• Coordinate department functions that include continuous improvement processes, compliance to audits, and assisting with customer specifications and quality issues.
• Ensure environmental health and safety training and new procedure implementation are executed and completed timely and accurately.
• Assist with related training development and scheduling.
• Provide training, coaching, and mentoring to team members.
• Plan, coordinate, and direct all regulatory compliance, laboratory, food and feed safety, and quality programs within the location to ensure compliance with customer, supplier, and government requirements and expectations.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• SAP experience (preferred).
• Moderate computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, and database navigation).
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams.

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.