Process Improvement Specialist

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 Process Improvement Specialist - Liquor establishes quality standards for products and processes and suggest modifications meant to prevent defects in components or final products. In this role, you will collaborate with multifunctional teams to identify and mitigate quality or food safety risks. You will collaborate with internal and external teams to address customer requirements and concerns, as well as collaborate on audits.

• Within food safety quality regulatory and operational parameters, understand requirements of processes, raw materials, and suppliers
• Address customer requirements and concerns and collaborate on audits.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities or other quality failures and drive corrective and preventative action through completion.
• Ensure compliance with product specfication as well as regulatory requirements
• Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to team members.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely execution, stakeholder alignment, and achievement of operational and business performance goals.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

• Chocolate or Cocoa liquor experience
• HACCP experience
• Quality testing experience: Fat analysis (NIR), fineness analysis
• Lean six sigma training and project completion with a continuous improvement mindset
• Experience with systems such as Pi, Power BI, and SAP