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Food
Safety and Quality Associate - Bovina, TX
Cargill
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 food ingredients and
bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition
and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and
foodservice companies.
JOB PURPOSE AND IMPACT
As Food Safety and Quality Associate, you will ensure products meet or exceed
customer requirements for quality and food safety. Assurance of product
quality will require from you to monitor quality assurance systems including
instrumentation calibration, maintenance, cross-checks, methods, procedures,
raw materials, food safety, and training. Additionally, you will understand
our plant processes and provide technical advice to support our production
operations. We are measuring impact to customer happiness, minimization of
process variation, process recoveries, waste reduction, and cost
minimization.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Assure
product meets compliance specifications and overall final product
approval checks.
- Data
analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action, and
communication with regard to processing data.
- Daily
assessment of process quality parameters and food safety and quality
systems including cross-checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance,
procedures, food safety, training, auditing & oversight of
analytical testing performed in control rooms.
- Training
of new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators,
technicians and personnel from other functional areas.
- Handle
basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating
more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other
duties as assigned.
Relocation will not be provided for this position.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s
degree in a related field OR four or more years of equivalent experience.
- Microsoft
Office experience.
- Able
and willing to work evening, weekends, holidays and be on call when
needed.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- HACCP
and feed safety knowledge.
- Laboratory
experience.
SUCCESS FACTORS
- Ability
to work independently with high initiative level.
- Ability
to adapt and learn in a changing work environment.
- Ability
to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems,
implement improvements based on the findings.
- Focus
on Continuous Improvement.
- Plan
and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational
goals.
- Excellent
communication and presentation skills both verbal and written.
- Strong
analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent
decisions.
Equal Opportunity Employer,
including Disability/Vet.
Job Quality Assurance/Food Safety
Primary Location US-TX-Bovina
Schedule Full-time
Job Type Standard
Shift Day Job
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