Chemist

Hidden • Blair, NE

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Join NatureWorks and be part of a fun, dynamic team dedicated to sustainability and excellence. The Laboratory Chemist ensures that products meet or exceed customer specifications for quality and food-safety related requirements by developing an in depth understanding of specific systems including instrumentation, calibration, maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety, and training. In this role, you will ensure customer satisfaction while helping to minimize cost, waste, and process variation. Gaining knowledge of the relationship of lab data and production processes, will support maximizing process yield, and efficiency, and safety. Functioning as a specialist backup is also part of the role. The position requires 12-hour shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Shifts will rotate from days to nights every 8 weeks. Our plant is located in the Blair bio-refinery campus.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Ability to contribute, both as part of a team and individually
• Microsoft Office proficiency (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays

Responsibilities

• Conducts simple experiments with minimal complexity
• Generates and analyzes data from well-established methodologies under standard conditions
• Follows template or standard procedure to review and present results
• Assure products meet specifications through in-process and final product approval compliance checks relative to internal and external specifications
• Completes specifically assigned tasks accurately and on time, including some instrument maintenance, drawing on detailed instructions or previous experience with similar tasks
• Generates and interprets technical results and documents information
• Provide process improvement support, specialized testing, training, system audit support, data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action, and communication regarding in process data and final product.
• Operates safely within NatureWorks policies, procedures and governmental regulations and fully participates in and champions NatureWorks Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Programs

Benefits

• 120 hours of vacation
• 24 hours floating holidays plus paid holidays
• 56 hours of family sick time
• 401k plan with a 5.5% automatic contribution and 50% match on the first 6% of your contributions
• Comprehensive medical plans to meet individual and family needs
• Fully paid Long-Term and Short-Term Disability (LTD/STD) insurance
• Benefits eligibility on day 1
• Compensation for this role is $72,757.71 annually with an 8% bonus potential.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level