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Quality Control Chemist

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Job ID 304040 Date posted 02/06/2025 Location : Buckeye, Arizona Category  FOOD SAFETY QUALITY & REGULATORY Job Status  Hourly Full Time

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
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 innovative products. 


Job Purpose and Impact

The Quality Control Chemist, will provide expertise with all daily operations in quality control laboratories and aid production operations. In this role, you will support the buildup and maintenance of the rapid technology platform by providing reliable accurate analytical figures as well as perform validation and troubleshooting of new analytical methods to ensure they meet the requirements and deadlines.

Key Accountabilities

•    Provide analytical support to Rapid Technology Application platform by releasing precise and accurate results and ensure scope of testing parameter is sufficient to build MPA module.
•    Provide ongoing technical support to stakeholders, investigate quality problems from raw materials, in process testing and finish goods testing and deliver improvement actions with follow up.
•    Perform method validation and verification to roll out new testing method in the lab.
•    Document standard operating procedures, identify possible trends in testing results with data analysis software and provide input to team members to improve quality control system.
•    Perform quality inspections on raw materials and finish good materials. 
•    Maintain systems and techniques for reporting data across functional areas.
•    Familiar and expose to wet chemistry as well as working with other analytical instrumentation.
•    Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
•    Other duties as assigned

Position information:

  • Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
  • This position is based in Buckeye, AZ 
  • Work schedule: M-F 10:00am - 6:00 pm, Flexibility  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Willing and able to lift up to 50lbs.

Preferred Qualifications

  • "Able to work independently, possess positive working attitude with high initiative level, and communicate effectively"
  • Necessary English reading capacity
  • Experience with chemical analysis (preferable)- oils and fats, starch, sweeteners, etc.
  • Knowledge in calibrate, maintain and troubleshoot various analytical instruments such as GC, HPLC, etc
  • Able to demonstrate and understand operations, method validation and report writing
  • Minimum of two years of working experience in the chemical industry lab

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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