Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill's food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety Quality Instrumentation Chemist will ensure that products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and Food Safety and develop an in depth understanding of specific systems. In this role, you will ensure customer satisfaction, minimization or process variation, process recovery realization, waste reduction, cost minimization and ability to act as a specialist backup.
Key Accountabilities
- Handle customer audits, initiatives and follow ups.
- Approve final production and assurance of compliance to customer specifications.
- Maintain and coordinate the chemist technician partnership and training systems.
- Provide process improvement support, specialized testing, training, audit systems, analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, corrective action and communication regarding processing data, final product and wastewater.
- Assess quality parameters and systems including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, Food Safety, training, auditing and oversight of analytical testing performed in control rooms.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two years of related work experience
- Availability to be on call nights, holidays, and weekends.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities with large projects.
- Proven ability to anticipate, recognize, solve process and laboratory problems.
- Food Safety Quality and regulatory experience
- Knowledge in instrumentation: (HPLC) high pressure liquid chromatography, (GC) gas chromatography, (ICP) Inductively Coupled Plasma, (IC) Ion Chromatography
- Experience with chlor-alkali systems
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Position Information
Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet