Food Safety Quality Chemist

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill's food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies. Job Purpose and Impact 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. Key Accountabilities 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 Position Information A Sign-On Bonus is offered for this role. Location: Eddyville, Iowa Qualifications Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience Ability to work a 12-hour rotating shift including nights, weekends and holidays. Preferred Qualifications 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 Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet