Food Safety Quality Chemist (12hr rotating shifts)

Cargill • Dayton, OH

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Food Safety Quality Chemist ensures products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. The role applies a basic understanding of plant processes to monitor quality assurance systems, including instrumentation calibration and maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety, and training. The chemist provides technical advice and support to production operations to ensure product quality, minimize process variation, support process recoveries, reduce waste and costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

The position is based in Dayton, Ohio. Relocation assistance is not provided, and Cargill will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Assure products meet compliance specifications and complete overall final product approval checks.
• Analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, determine corrective actions, and communicate regarding processing data.
• Assess daily process quality parameters and food safety and quality systems, including crosschecks, 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 and escalate more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time