Food Safety Quality Regulatory Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We partner with producers and customers to source, make, and deliver products that are vital for living, enabling businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well. This position is in our Food Enterprise, serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with innovative ingredients and branded products, including poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa, and chocolate.

About the role

The Food Safety Quality Regulatory Associate Chemist will ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. In this role, you will apply a 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, cost minimization, and improve customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Assure product meets compliance specifications and perform final product approval checks.
• Conduct 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, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Preferred:
  • Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment.
  • Ability to anticipate, recognize, and address process and laboratory problems, implementing improvements based on findings.
  • Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions.
  • Experience with email, spreadsheet, and word processing applications.

Schedule

Rotating 12-hour shifts: One week on Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat, Sun; the following week on Wed and Thu. Shifts are either 6:30 AM – 6:30 PM or 6:30 PM – 6:30 AM.

Position is based in Hammond, IN. Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.