Food Safety Quality Chemist
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds
Nice To Haves
- Food manufacturing background
- 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
- Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
- 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.
- Training of 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.
- Other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
