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Food
Safety Quality Associate - Cedar Rapids, IA
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 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 Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Microsoft Office experience.
Able and willing to work a rotating shift.
Able and willing to work evening, weekends, holidays and be on call when
needed.
Able and willing to work independently, possess positive working attitude
with high initiative level and communicate effectively. Preferred
Qualifications
Experience with laboratory instrumentation.
Ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems,
implement improvements based on the findings.
Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent
decisions.
Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational
goals Position Information
Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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