Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Technician (1st and 2nd shift) (18 month temp)

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Technician (1st and 2nd shift) (18 month temp) 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

Position Information

• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Qualifications

Minimum Required

• High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
• Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
• 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
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

Preferred

• Minimum of two years of experience in a food manufacturing facility
• Experience or knowledge of chemical titrations
• Knowledge of beef and pork muscle cuts

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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