Food Safety Quality Chemist (12hr rotating shifts)

About the role

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well. This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.

The Food Safety Quality Chemist 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.

Position based in Dayton, Ohio. Relocation assistance is not provided and the business will not sponsor work visas for this role.

Responsibilities

• Assure product meets compliance specifications and perform final product approval checks.
• Perform data analysis, identify trends, troubleshoot, implement corrective actions, and communicate findings 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, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience; ability to work nights, weekends and holidays.
• Preferred: Previous laboratory experience; ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment; ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems and implement improvements based on findings; strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions; experience with email, spreadsheet, and word processing applications.