Food Safety Quality Regulatory Lab Technician - 10 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 life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Ag & Trading enterprise, where we connect producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe through origination, trading, processing, and distribution. We also offer a range of farmer services and risk management solutions.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Regulatory Lab Technician - 10 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

• 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

• Bachelor’s 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

Position information

• Work schedule: 5AM – 3PM rotating 10-hour shift | 1 week – Mon – Thurs | 2 week – Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat, Sun |3 week – Wed, Thurs, Fri
• Rotates within the team, occasionally cover overtime as needed.
• Position is based in Wichita, KS

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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