Food Safety Quality Instrumentation Chemist

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 test, calibrate, install, repair and inspect Food Safety and quality monitoring devices for plant production and process equipment. In this role, you will analyze malfunctions of instruments and control systems, determine necessary steps for repair and work with scientific and analytic Food Safety and quality computer software, data management, calculators, voltage and current meters and electronic probes in order to diagnose faults in circuitry.
Key Accountabilities

• Provide training, coaching and mentoring to new team members.
• Perform general maintenance on equipment and develop new and improved Food Safety and quality measuring and recording equipment.
• Perform calibrations on various devices measuring fl ow, pressure, temperature, level and speed, documenting equipment inspection, testing and repair activities.
• Investigate and communicate quality related issues including instrument discrepancies, exception reporting and other noncompliance issues.
• Provide troubleshooting, diagnostic and risk assessments of Food Safety and quality performance instruments and control systems.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field OR equivalent experience
• Minimum of two years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic understanding of laboratory instrumentation theory or background
• Strong project management, social and interpersonal skills.
• Intermediate computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Ability to handle multiple priorities with large projects extending over a period of time.
• Ability to balance and achieve positive results in the areas of Food Safety, safety, quality, productivity, andcost.
• Ability to work expertly and eff ectively as an individual and in a team environment.

Position Information
Location: Blair, NE
Posting expiration date: May 16th
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet