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Food Safety Quality Regulatory Technician

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Job ID 328353 Date posted 06/09/2026 Location : Dayton, Ohio Category  FOOD SAFETY QUALITY & REGULATORY Job Status  Hourly Full Time

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.

Cargill has announced plans to close its Dayton, Ohio facility, which is expected to remain operational at least through November 2027 to support business and customer needs.Employees who remain through their designated end date and do not transition to another Cargill role may be eligible for retention and separation benefits in accordance with current company policy.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Regulatory Technician will complete moderately complex analytical and laboratory testing in support of the foodsafety quality and operational teams. In this role, you will perform routine analysis of product testing and willcheck and monitor instrumentation performance, conduct tests and document results into databases andcommunicate test results.

Key Accountabilities

  • Conduct routine quantitative and qualitative inspections and laboratory tests on raw materials, in process andfinal products independently and support more complex trials and experiments under intermediatesupervision.
  • Ensure compliance programs for all individual testing, which includes monitoring adherence to regulationsand other procedural food safety compliance.
  • Interpret and document results of tests into active databases and communicate results to internal customersas required.
  • Run calibration checks, preventive maintenance tasks and simple repair to analytical instrumentation andmaintain customer specifications books.
  • Help develop food and feed safety, quality and regulatory culture and collaborate cross functionally to build,maintain and improve an effective food safety, quality and regulatory culture.
  • Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under generalsupervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
  • Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevantexperience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ability to read and interpret documents (safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and proceduremanuals).
  • Strong computer program professional knowledge: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Outlook.
  • Write routine reports and correspondence.

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Position Information

Location: Dayton, OH
Schedule: Wednesday-Saturday | 7:00am-5:00pm, including holidays as needed
Relocation assistance is not provided for this role


Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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