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 Quality Control Supervisor will provide quality control management for the assigned businesses. In this role, you will ensure quality control laboratory performance using quality data combined with a strong product quality expertise. You will proactively inform the internal partners on quality trends, compliance and data from the different origins to enable the best business decisions on sourcing, buying and usage of raw materials and maximize profit while assuring end product compliance.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the quality control processes for the defined business units, overseeing the quality procedures and quality data and assure reliability of data including methodology and analysis execution.
- Lead routine operational testing of incoming materials, in process and final goods, deliver accurate and timely results to enable decision making, support the production labs to ensure efficient operations and produce corrective action for final products.
- Collaborate with businesses and location professionals on research projects and act as a domain specialist in food quality related projects or trouble shooting activities either as a team member or as a project lead.
- Oversee laboratory safety by implementing safety standards, undertaking verification of safety control effectiveness and leading continuous improvement.
- Develop analytical optimization, develop and implement lead and lag key performance indicators and ensure clear objectives are in place.
- Collaborate with the laboratory development team on calibration and validation of new and improved methods.
- Other duties as assigned
- Responsible for personnel decisions related to hiring, performance and disciplinary actions for your direct reports. You will also spend time completing the same tasks as employees on your team.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Advanced level of English both written and verbal
- Minimum requirement of 5 year relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Food engineering
- Understanding of analytical and calibration techniques
- Basic knowledge of SAP QM
- Working knowledge of quality control laboratory operations and analytical testing techniques
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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