Food Safety Associate Chemist 12-hour rotating shift
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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.
The Food Safety 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.
- 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 by others.
- 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.
- Work Schedule: 12-hour rotating shifts (6:00 AM to 6:00 PM or 12:00 PM to 12:00 AM) on a two-week rotating schedule: Week 1 works Monday Tuesday Friday and Saturday; Week 2 works Sunday Wednesday and Thursday. Day and evening shifts rotate every four weeks.
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- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Willing and able to work 12-hour rotating shift including nights weekends and holidays.
- 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
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About Company
Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.
