Title:  Food Safety Chemist

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.
• Maintain QC Lab instruments and equipment and general lab condition and contract testing labs.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Basic lab skills: able to pipette, use analytical balance, pH meter, good technique to prevent cross contamination.
• Experience using SOPs (standard operating procedure) to perform assays and other quality tasks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications

Position Information

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
Location:  Ankeny, Iowa