Food Safety Chemist

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Chemist (Night Shift – Dupont Schedule) will ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. In this role, you will apply basic understanding of plant processes to monitor quality assurance systems including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety and training. You will provide technical advice and support to production operations to ensure product quality, minimize process variation, process recoveries, waste reduction and cost minimization and improve customer satisfaction. This role will conduct inventory analysis and work on basic assignments to help implement policies, procedures and applicable regulations to monitor and ensure inventory security.

Key Accountabilities

• Assure raw materials and products meet compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
• Perform data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action and communicate 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, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Able and willing to work on rotating shifts including nights, weekends and holidays
• Able and willing to lift up to 50 pounds
• Preferred: Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
• Preferred: Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
• Preferred: Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions
• Preferred: Ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems, implement improvements based on the findings