Food Safety and Quality Specialist – Cargill

Join Cargill to help nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. 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, customers with ingredients, and families with daily essentials – from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues operate in 70 countries, making essential products for billions of lives each day.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety and Quality Specialist will assist in establishing, maintaining, and conducting audits to ensure compliance with all existing regulatory and quality systems within the company. In this role, you will support the processing facility by reviewing third‑party certifications and preparing responses to customer inquiries, inspections, reports, and complaints arising from quality and food or product safety inspections.

Shift work: 7 am–3 pm, 3 pm–11 pm.

Employment type: Replacement contract – fixed‑term employment (approximately 20 months).

Location: Słupca, Greater Poland Voivodeship.

Key Accountabilities

• Promote food or product safety awareness throughout the plant, develop the competencies of plant specialists, and assist others with topics related to food or product safety, hazard analysis, and critical control points.
• Assist others with food or product safety issues by training new team members in food or product safety procedures.
• Monitor production processes from a quality perspective – monitoring temperatures, glass and plastic inspections, etc.
• Identify and update specific quality procedures, instructions, and tools directly related to food and product safety.
• Accurately complete internal and external safety and quality audits, including addressing non‑conformances at the site.
• Manage basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate personnel.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology, Biotechnology, or a related field.
• Experience in a production environment.

Preferred requirements

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint, and strong computer skills.
• Basic knowledge of quality assurance and food safety.
• Knowledge of HACCP, BRC and IFS standards is a plus.
• Fluent Polish – daily work in Polish (English is a plus).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently.

Benefits

• Work in an international environment.
• Life insurance.
• Private healthcare.
• Program NAIS (subsidized sports activities, etc.).
• Opportunity to join the Employee Pension Plan (PPE).
• Meal voucher.

Our Offer

We provide a fast‑paced, stimulating international environment that will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer a competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Interested?

Send your CV and cover letter in English today. Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargill

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