Title: Food Safety Coordinator

Job Requisition ID: 313448

Location:

Fort Worth, Texas, US United States, 76111

Category: FOOD SAFETY QUALITY & REGULATORY

Description:

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 protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety and Quality Regional Coordinator will support teams with food safety and quality issues. 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 the facility 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 the facility with corrective actions related to product quality and lead the investigation and follow up of customer complaints.
Collaborate with the plant manager within a region to build and foster an effective food safety, quality and regulatory culture. Drive focus on corrective a preventative action implementation.
Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in science, chemistry, microbilogy, quality assurance or other applicable field or equivalent experience
Minimum of four years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

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
Experience with food manufacturing environments

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet