Food Safety Quality & Regulatory Associate

Cargill • Hazleton, PA

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About The Position

This position is in Cargill's Food Enterprise, which is committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. The Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Associate will ensure internal collaboration and connectivity for all policies, standards, and trainings. In this role, you will partner with contacts to assist with compliance and customer specification issues. You will also work closely with the location to coordinate and plan programs that fall under food safety, quality, and regulatory areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Moderate computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, and database navigation)
• SAP experience
• Validated change management in an industrial setting
• Experience in leading cross functional teams

Responsibilities

• Perform inspection of finished or in process goods, analyze data and identify trends in defects or errors.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities or other quality failures.
• Coordinate department functions that include continuous improvement processes, compliance to audits and assisting with customer specifications and quality issues.
• Ensure environmental health and safety training and new procedure implementation are executed and completed timely and accurately.
• Assist with related training development and scheduling.
• Provide training, coaching and mentoring to team members.
• Plan, coordinate and direct all regulatory compliance, laboratory, food and feed safety and quality programs within the location to ensure compliance with customer, supplier and government requirements and expectations.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level