Quality Controller
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 and Regulatory Technician will monitor and maintain sampling programs, traceability, allergen and pest control programs and quality system manuals. In this role, you will ensure that incoming raw materials, packaging and ingredients conform to specifications. You will help with training related to hazard analysis critical control points, quality, food or product safety and good hygiene practices. You will also support the maintenance of food or product safety and quality management systems, with authority and responsibility to stop the process if food or product safety has been compromised. The position based in Hungary in Cserkeszőlő.
Key Accountabilities
- Test all cooking and kitchen activities, approve or reject products in a timely manner through sensory or test data and record findings in lab systems.
- Assist with regulatory activities such as internal and third party audits and help ensure compliance with regulatory and customer standards.
- Coordinate preoperational inspection personnel to ensure operations start only when plant cleanliness is up to standard, lead and participate in the weekly sanitation meeting and maintain related documentation.
- Manage incoming raw materials, packaging and ingredients to ensure quality parameters are in place and review supplier documentation to meet customer specifications.
- Conduct sampling of finished product and raw materials, submit samples to microbiology lab for testing and follow up on any nonconforming results.
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Associates Degree, Bachelor's degree
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points certified
- Food or product industry experience
- Food or product safety regulatory experience
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
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