Food Safety Quality & Regulatory Associate

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Until 10/8/2026 First posted August 7, 2026 Last posted August 9, 2026
Job description

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 Associate, 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.

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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Attention to detail
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Moderate computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, and database navigation)
  • SAP experience
  • Validated change management in an industrial setting
  • Experience in leading cross functional teams

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

About this role

Summary

Coordinate food safety, quality, and regulatory programs; perform inspections and analysis.

Job title

Food Safety Quality & Regulatory Associate

Experience level

none

Industry

food and agriculture

Location requirements

Remote work not specified, likely on-site or hybrid

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

attention to detailinterpersonal skillscomputer skillsSAPchange managementteam leadership

Preferred skills

SAP experiencechange managementcross functional team leadership

Specializations

food safetyquality assuranceregulatory complianceinspectionroot cause analysis
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