FSQ Chemist I
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
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.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Food Safety Chemist I, 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 #LI-Onsite #LI-JG3
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
- Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
- SAP experience
- 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
- Strong attention to detail, along with excellent interpersonal skills
Position Details
- Location: Breaux Bridge, LA
- Posted: Internal and External
- Relocation assistance is not provided for this role
- Schedule: First shift (7:00 AM to 4:00 PM), with flexibility and willingness to work additional hours and weekends as needed to support business and operational requirements.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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