Food Safety Quality Regulatory Senior Specialist

Cargill's 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 160,000 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 Cargill's food and bioindustrial business, 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 Quality Regional Senior Specialist will lead the Eddyville food safety team to maintain the food safety and quality parameters. In this role, you will collaborate with customers, regulators, suppliers and other key internal and external partners to resolve issues. You will oversee and execute 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 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 the company's customer complaint tracking and trending program to ensure proper complaint follow up and ensure that high priority complaints are dealt with urgently.
• Assist facilities with corrective actions related to product quality and 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 on 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

• Relocation assistance will be provided for this position.
• Position is based in Eddyville, Iowa
• Work schedule:Mon- Fri 8am-5pm, occasional weekends and holidays

• Bachelor's degree in science, chemistry, microbilogy, quality assurance or other applicable field or equivalent experience
• PCQI, HACCP, auditing experience
• 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

• Master's degree in science, chemistry, microbiology, quality assurance, business or other applicable field
• 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.