Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist 12 hour rotating shift

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 lifes 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 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

• Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
• Data analysis trend identification troubleshooting corrective action and communication with regard to processing data.
• 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.
• Training of new food safety and quality chemists analysts operators technicians and personnel from other functional areas.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
• Ability to anticipate recognize and seek process and laboratory problems implement improvements based on the findings
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions
• Experience with email spreadsheet and word processing applications
• Strong communication skills

Position information:

• Relocation will not be provided for this position
• Work schedule:12 hour rotating shift and rotating days 7:00am 7:00PM and 7:00PM -7:00am 1 week Mon Tue-Fri Sat Sun 2 week Wed - Thurs Every 8 week it rotates from nights to days
• Position is based in Cedar Rapids IA

Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vet

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