Laboratory Technician - Rotating Shift

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
Do you love a challenge? Love to analyze data and uncover risks? Do you enjoy training, mentoring and guiding new hires? These are few of the ways we can use your experience in this position. The Laboratory Technician will develop and implement processes and procedures meant to improve quality throughout the organization. In this role, you will partner with other teams to identify and mitigate quality risks and will work with senior staff to address customer requirements and concerns, as well as collaborate on audits.
Key Accountabilities

• Expertly perform inspection of finished or in process goods, analyze data and identify trends in defects or errors.
• Partner with cross functional teams on product design, product management and production to uncover and avoid quality risks.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities or other quality failures.
• Ensure compliance with formal external and internal quality standards.
• Provide training, coaching and mentoring to team members.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct 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
• Ability to work Rotating Shifts, weekends and holidays
• Ability to lift up to 40 pounds

Preferred Qualifications

• Intermediate mathematical and analytical skills.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint skills
• Solid working knowledge of quality assurance and/or food safety concepts.
• One or more years of related work experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet