Food Safety Quality Regulatory Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift

Cargill • Hammond, IN

12h

About The Position

Cargill is a family company providing food and agricultural solutions in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. This position is in Cargill’s Food Enterprise, which serves food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with ingredients and branded products.

The Food Safety Quality Regulatory Associate 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, 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 role handles basic issues under direct supervision and escalates more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent 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

• Ensure products meet compliance specifications and complete final product approval checks.
• Analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, take corrective action, 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, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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