Grain Quality Analyst

Job Title: Grain Quality Analyst
Location: Ankeny, IA 50021
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite

Job Summary:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in a scientific or engineering field such as Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Biology or a closely related field with at least three years of related industry experience.
• Directly applicable experience will be considered in lieu of degree requirements.
• Receipt, identification, and preparation of samples.
• Ensure incoming samples are labeled correctly.
• Appropriate analytical requests have been requested.
• Prep and analyze samples according to ISO work instructions.
• Ability to routinely lift items weighing 35 - 40 lbs.
• Prioritization of analyses according to customer needs matched to capacity.
• Organization and coordination of projects in a high throughput lab environment.
• Obtaining analytical data.
• Ensuring data integrity.
• Functioning in multi-discipline teams and delivering laboratory results in an efficient manner.
• Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
• Works under immediate supervision.
• Typically reports to a supervisor.

Preferred Skills:

• Hands-on experience with total combustion analysis.
• Elemental analysis.
• Calorimetry.
• Gas Chromatography (GC).
• NIR Spectroscopy.
• NMR.
• Total oil analysis.
• Colorimetry.
• Falling number.
• Farinograph.
• Mixograph.
• Bench-top wet chemical analyses.
• LIMS.
• Microsoft Office Suite.
• Equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

Years of Experience:

• 1-3 Years of Experience.