Fodd Safety Quality Chemist

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Chemist ensures products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. They apply basic understanding of plant processes to monitor quality assurance systems, including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety, and training. They provide technical advice and support to production operations to ensure product quality, minimize process variation, reduce waste, and improve customer satisfaction.

Key Accountabilities

• Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
• Data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action, and communication regarding processing data.
• Assess process quality parameters and food safety and quality systems daily, including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, food safety, training, auditing, and oversight of analytical testing performed in control rooms.
• Train 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 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 findings; Salt experience.

Position Information

Position is based in St Clair, Michigan. Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.