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FSQR Specialist

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Job ID 327258 Date posted 05/22/2026 Location : Wandsbek, Germany Category  FOOD SAFETY QUALITY & REGULATORY Job Status  Salaried 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.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Specialist, 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.

We offer a fixed-term contract of 1 year.

This position is dedicated to our plant in Hamburg-Wandsbek, where we produce cocoa liquor. 

Key Accountabilities

  • 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

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Qualifications

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
•    Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
•    Practical experience in food company in food safety area 
•    Fluent German and English language (daily work in both languages)
•    Strong focus on high standards of work, with particular focus on the quality of products and processes

Preferred Qualifications 
•    Attention to detail
•    Strong interpersonal skills
•    SAP 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.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today:  
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