
Food Safety Quality Senior Technician (2nd shift)
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Job overview
The Food Safety Quality Senior Technician performs complex analytical and laboratory testing in support of food safety, quality, and operational teams. The role includes testing products, monitoring instrumentation, documenting and communicating results, and supporting trials and experiments. It also provides food safety and quality leadership, coaching, and mentoring to facility employees. The position is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Cargill will not sponsor work visas.
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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 and Senior Technician will complete complex analytical and laboratory testing in support of the food safety quality and operational teams. In this role, you will perform complex analysis of product testing, be responsible for checking and monitoring instrumentation performance, conduct tests and document results into databases and communicate test results.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
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Perform routine analysis on final and in process products and ensure that finished products meet required specifications prior to releasing shipments.
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Enter data into databases and communicate results verbally or in writing, resolve problems by examining and evaluating data and select corrective steps.
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Assists with the evaluation and interpretation of highly complex data, identifies problems with atypical test results consulting with upper level personnel
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Support trials and experiments under the direction of more senior team members.
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Perform food safety and quality leadership, coaching and mentoring to facility employees.
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Handle complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
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Other duties as assigned.
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QUALIFICATIONS
MINIMUM
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High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
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Possesses proven working knowledge of laboratory instrumentation
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Minimum of four years of related work experience
PREFERRED
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Bachelor’s degree
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Minimum of three years of experience within a laboratory or food manufacturing environment
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Working knowledge of ISO 22000 accreditation's or standard
APPLICANT INFORMATION
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This position is posted both internally and externally
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Position is based in Indianapolis, Indiana
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Relocation assistance is NOT provided for this role
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The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,141 open Laboratory Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$50–70K/yr246 salary ranges
- Indiana median$22–27/hr23 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 34 open Laboratory Technician jobs in Indiana and 2,141 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Indiana
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — more than three in four Laboratory Technician postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 906 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,164 of the 2,141 open Laboratory Technician jobs (54%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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