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Quality Officer

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Job ID 304269 Date posted 03/27/2025 Location : Kalmthout, Belgium Category  FOOD SAFETY QUALITY & REGULATORY Job Status  Salaried Full Time

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 food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products. 

Job Purpose and Impact

The Quality Officer is responsible for completing a variety of monitoring and verification tasks to ensure that the plant operates in compliance with our 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 non-bias 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 with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
  • Knowledge of food safety concepts, including hazard management and governmental agency requirements
  • Able to represent the company during third party audits and governmental agency verifications
  • Minimum of four years of related work experience
  • Fluent in English and Dutch

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a science related field
    Minimum of two years of experience in a food manufacturing facility

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.


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