Senior Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Technician - 2nd shift
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 Senior Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Technician – 2nd Shift will complete a variety of monitoring and verification tasks to ensure that the plant operates in compliance with food safety programs, policies and certifications. In this role, you will influence people who are not direct reports to achieve overall quality standards and meet governmental agency quality standards.
Key Accountabilities
- Complete food safety, sanitation, operational, risk material and control room monitoring.
- Review daily material processing procedures and verify all applicable monitoring documents, taking immediate corrective actions when deviations are identified.
- Maintain food safety records, imputing and assigning deviation reports as required.
- Conduct daily inspections of the plant for each one of the critical control points and sanitation monitoring zones, ensuring all monitors are adhering to the written food safety programs.
- Perform unbiased audits throughout the facility to ensure adherence to sanitation procedures for critical job tasks.
- Communicate deviations to management and ensure they are documented, assigned correctly and completed in a timely manner and follow up on corrective actions and preventative measures to ensure they are effective.
- Provide and administer food safety certification training to plant employees including theoretical training related to quality programs.
- Handle complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
- Minimum of four years of related work experience
- Knowledge of food safety concepts, including hazard management and governmental agency requirements
- Able to represent the company during third party audits and governmental agency verifications
- Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
- Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada
Preferred Qualifications
- Diploma/Certificate or bachelor’s degree in a science related field
- Minimum of two years of experience in a food manufacturing facility
- Experience or knowledge of chemical titrations
Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.