Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift
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Job overview
Cargill is hiring a Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift. The Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist ensures products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety, applying basic plant process knowledge to monitor quality assurance systems, calibrate instrumentation, and support production operations to minimize variation, waste, and cost while improving customer satisfaction.
Key focus areas include Assure product meets compliance specifications and final product approval checks, Analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, take corrective action, and communicate processing data, and Assess daily process quality parameters and food safety systems including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, training, auditing, and analytical testing oversight.
Successful candidates bring Bachelor's Degree In Related Field Or Equivalent Experience and Willing And Able To Work 12-Hour Rotating Shift Including Nights And Weekends. Preferred (not required): Data Analysis, Trend Identification, Troubleshooting, and Communication.
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Full 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 Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift, will ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. In this role, you will apply basic understanding of plant processes to monitor quality assurance systems including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety and training. You will provide technical advice and support to production operations to ensure product quality, minimize process variation, process recoveries, waste reduction and cost minimization and improve customer satisfaction.
Key Accountabilities
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Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
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Data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action and communication with regard to processing data.
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Assess process quality parameters and food safety and quality systems daily, including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, food safety, training, auditing and oversight of analytical testing performed in control rooms.
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Training of new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators, technicians and personnel from other functional areas.
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Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
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Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
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Willing and able to work 12-hour rotating shift including nights and weekends
Preferred Qualifications
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Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
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Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
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Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions
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Ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems, implement improvements based on the findings
Position information:
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Relocation will be provided for this position
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Work schedule: 12 rotating shift | 1 week - Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat, Sun | 2 week Wed and Thurs | 6:00 am -6:00 pm or 12:00pm- 12:00 am | Hours rotates every 4-6 weeks Work occasional nights per business need
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Position is based in Eddyville, IA
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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