Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Technician (12 month term)

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Job Title: Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Technician (12 month term)
Location: Guelph, ON, Central Canada, Canada

Company: Cargill, Inc
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Technician
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: 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 protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Technician (12 month term) 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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
Experience working in food-processing manufacturing environment
Knowledge in Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Excel, outlook)
Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a science related field (Food Sciences, Microbiology)
In-depth knowledge of sanitation and manufacturing practices in the assessment of plant hygiene program
Experience in Food safety and regulatory, and strong understanding of Sanitation, SOPs, Pre-requisite Programs, HACCP, CCP's and GMP's, and third-party requirements

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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Job Post Date: 07/23/25