Food Safety Chemist
Food Safety Chemist
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Job Description
Cargills 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 so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials from eggs to edible oils salt to skincare feed to alternative fuel. Our 160000 colleagues operating in 70 countries make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is in Cargills food and bioindustrialbusiness where manufacturers retailers and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety Chemist will ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. Assurance of product quality will require from you to monitor quality assurance systems including instrumentation calibration maintenance cross-checks methods procedures raw materials food safety and training. Additionally you will understand our plant processes and provide technical advice to support our production operations. We are measuring impact to customer happiness minimization of process variation process recoveries waste reduction and cost minimization.
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.
- Daily assessment of process quality parameters and food safety and quality systems including cross-checks raw materials calibration maintenance procedures food safety training auditing & 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
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field OR equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
- Experience with email spreadsheet and word processing applications
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions
- Ability to anticipate recognize and seek process and laboratory problems implement improvements based on the findings
Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vet
Employment Type
Full-Time
