Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Specialist

Cargill is seeking a Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Specialist in Wichita, KS. The role involves ensuring compliance with food safety and quality systems, conducting audits, and collaborating with teams to address customer needs. Candidates should have a relevant degree or equivalent experience, strong computer skills, and at least two years in the food/feed industry. The position requires working in a plant environment and may involve weekend shifts.
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 agricultural supply chain business. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver essential products.
Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Regulatory Specialist will provide specialized knowledge of specific segments of quality systems or plant processes such as food safety and quality auditing, instrumentation, specific product line knowledge, computer systems, management or oversight of suppliers and other needed focus areas. In this role, you will be involved in preparation and participation of customer audits, and you will partner with internal and external teams to address customer requirements and concerns, as well as collaborate on audits.

Key Accountabilities
• Conduct verification and maintenance of the food safety and quality systems, hazard analysis and sanitation processes, prerequisite programs, manufacturing processes, plant environment and finished product.
Conduct plant inspections, manage the pest control program and site security.
Collaborates with operations on the initiation of corrective action and preventative measures when necessary.
Ensure adherence to corporate, regulatory, customer and facility food safety and quality requirements and completion of corrections and corrective actions.
Lead relevant regional, corporate and regulatory food safety focused audits.
Act as food safety team leader, coordinate and lead the food safety team and overseeing the food safety management system and management review.
Manage food and feed safety management system compliance to appropriate government regulations.
Investigate and follow up on food safety incidents that occur in the plant to ensure they are reported and that corrective action and permanent corrections are taken.
Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Required
Bachelor’s degree in a related field OR equivalent experience
Strong computer skills and Microsoft Office experience.
Fluent in English
Experience with Food Safety Certifying Bodies
Knowledge of food/feed safety industry practices and standards.
Minimum two years of work experience in food and/or feed industry
Ability to work in an external plant environment, handling and unloading chemicals.
Availability to work on weekends

Preferred
Experience working with SAP or similar
Experience working in a lab environment

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.