Job Information
Cargill Food Safety Quality Chemist in Dayton, Ohio
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 food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop exciting products.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety Quality Chemist will ensure that products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety and develop an in depth understanding of specific systems. In this role, you will ensure customer satisfaction, minimization or process variation, process recovery realization, waste reduction, cost minimization and ability to act as a specialist backup.
Key Accountabilities
Handle customer audits, initiatives and follow ups.
Maintain and coordinate the food safety quality and technician partnership and training systems.
Provide process improvement support, specialized testing, training, audit systems, analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, corrective action and communication regarding food safety incidents.
Assess quality parameters and systems including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, food safety, training, auditing and oversight of analytical testing performed in control rooms.
Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned
#LI-GS1
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of two years of related work experience
Able and willing to work from heights (i.e. ladders, catwalks, etc.) and in an indoor/outdoor environment.
Ability to walk for extended periods of time, including up and down multiple stairs.
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to handle multiple priorities with moderate projects.
Proven ability to anticipate, recognize, solve process and laboratory problems.
Cargill food safety quality and regulatory experience
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet