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Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Chemist - Eddyville,
IA
Cargill
Benefits
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description
Relocation assistance
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
As Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Chemist, you will ensure products meet
or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. Assurance of
product quality will require from you to monitor quality assurance systems
including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, cross-checks, methods,
procedures, raw materials, food safety, and training. Additionally, you will
understand our plant processes and provide technical advice to support our
production operations. We are measuring impact to customer happiness,
minimization of process variation, process recoveries, waste reduction, and
cost minimization. Key Accountabilities
Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product
approval checks.
Data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action, and
communication with regard to processing data.
Daily assessment of process quality parameters and food safety and quality
systems including cross-checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance,
procedures, food safety, training, auditing & oversight of analytical
testing performed in control rooms.
Training of new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators,
technicians and personnel from other functional areas.
Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating
more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned Position Information:
Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position. Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Willing and able to work on a 12 hour shift schedule
including weekends and holidays. Preferred Qualifications
Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent
decisions
Ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems,
implement improvements based on the findings
Excellent communication and presentation skills both verbal and written
Microsoft Office Suite experience
Able to work independently, possess positive working attitude with high
initiative level, and communicate effectively
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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