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Food Safety Chemist

Cargill Inc
  • Cedar Rapids, IA
    8 days ago

    Job Description

    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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

    Job Purpose and Impact

    The Food Safety Chemist (Night Shift - Dupont Schedule), 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. This role will conduct inventory analysis and work on basic assignments to help implement policies, procedures and applicable regulations to monitor and ensure inventory security.

    Key Accountabilities

    • Assure raw materials and products 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

    Position Information

    Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

    Qualifications

    Minimum Required

    • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
    • Able and willing to work on rotating shifts including nights, weekends and holidays
    • Able and willing to lift up to 50 pounds

    Preferred

    • 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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    Numbers & Facts

    LocationCedar Rapids, IA

    Skills

    • Agricultureunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Animal Nutritionunmatched
    • Auditingunmatched
    • Business Growthunmatched
    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Calibrationunmatched
    • Chemistryunmatched
    • Corrective Actionunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Customer Satisfactionunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Processingunmatched
    • Food Qualityunmatched
    • Food Safetyunmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Instrumentationunmatched
    • Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
    • Monitor Regulationsunmatched
    • Operational Supportunmatched
    • Policy Implementationunmatched
    • Procedure Implementationunmatched
    • Process Analysisunmatched
    • Process Qualityunmatched
    • Production Supportunmatched
    • Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Quality Monitoringunmatched
    • Raw Foodunmatched
    • Safety Processunmatched
    • Safety Systemsunmatched
    • Safety Trainingunmatched
    • Spreadsheetsunmatched
    • Supply Chainunmatched
    • Technical Supportunmatched
    • Trend Analysisunmatched
    • Word Processingunmatched

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