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 Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Specialist 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 partner with internal and external teams to address customer requirements and concerns, as well as collaborate on audits.

Key Accountabilities

• Conduct verification and maintenance of the food safety and quality systems, hazard analysis and sanitation processes, prerequisite programs, manufacturing processes, plant environment and finished product
• Collaborates with operations on the initiation of corrective action and preventative measures when necessary
• Ensure adherence to corporate, regulatory, customer and facility food safety and quality requirements and completion of corrections and corrective actions
• Lead relevant regional, corporate and regulatory food safety focused audits
• Manage food and feed safety management system compliance to appropriate government regulations
• Investigate and follow up on food safety incidents that occur in the plant to ensure they are reported and that corrective action and permanent corrections are taken
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in English & Dutch
• Experience with Food Safety System Certification 22000, GMP+ feed safety systemand ISO 9001 certification
• Strong computer skills and Microsoft Office experience
• Experience working with SAP or similar
• Knowledge of food/feed safety industry practices and standards
• Minimum two years of work experience in food and/or feed industry
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and trained in performing internal audits
• Five or more years of working experience in quality, food/feed safety, or a related field

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today: Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargill

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