Cargill Food Safety and Quality Regional Facility Manager Vacancy
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible, and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.
Job Title: Food Safety and Quality Regional Facility Manager
Job ID 152201
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
- Ability to climb stairs and ladders periodically
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in science, chemistry, microbiology, quality assurance, business or other applicable fields
- 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.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety and Quality Regional Facility Manager will support team members in their region with food safety and quality issues. We seek a multifaceted professional to collaborate with customers, regulators, suppliers and other key internal and external partners to resolve issues. In this role, you will step in during 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 the closing of identified gaps at facilities 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 our customer complaint tracking and trending program, ensuring proper complaint follow-up, ensuring high priority complaints are dealt with urgently
- Assist facilities with corrective actions related to product quality. Lead the investigation and follow-up of customer complaints.
- Collaborate with plant managers and other facility leaders within a region to build and foster an effective food safety, quality, and regulatory culture. Drive focus on corrective a preventative action implementation.
- Define and lead the onboarding process for our location leaders and business regional leaders. Participate in the search and selection of qualified candidates.
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
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