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Form of workWant 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 Laboratory Technician will provide quality assurance and food safety technical support through testing and auditing process documentation and data collection and analysis. In this role, you will collaborate to identify quality assurance issues and analyze data to uncover risks and support knowledge transfer.
Key Accountabilities
- Conduct inspections of finished products or raw materials to identify trends in defects or errors and support more complex trials and experiments under intermediate supervision.
- Provide training, coaching and mentoring to new team members.
- Conduct documentation review of hazard analysis, food safety and quality documents.
- Assists in audits and shelf life projects through testing, preparing reports and final summaries.
- Manage customer complaints and ensure appropriate actions and preventative measures are in place to prevent reoccurrence.
- Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under general supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
- Minimum of two years of related work experience
- Ability to lift up to 50lbs
- Ability to work on a 3rd Shift
- Knowledge of meat cuts
- Excellent writing and interpersonal skills
- Microsoft Office experience
- Excellent time management and organization skills
- Able to work unsupervised
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
