Food Safety Quality Chemist

Cargill • Watkins Glen, NY

158d • $62,000 - $72,000

About The Position

Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill. This position is in Cargill's protein and salt business, where we provide wholesome, high-quality food products to a wide range of customers, from foodservice operators and grocery stores to manufacturers and exporters.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• 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 the findings.

Responsibilities

• Ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety.
• Monitor quality assurance systems including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety and training.
• 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.
• Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
• Conduct data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action and communication with regard to 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Food Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree