Job ID 164209
Location : Blair, Nebraska
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Job Purpose and Impact
As Food Safety Quality Chemist, you 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
Position information:
• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Willing and able to work on a rotational 12 hour shift, holidays and weekends
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.