Title: Food Safety Quality Regulatory Chemist ‎

Job Requisition ID: 309428

Location:

Hammond, Indiana, US United States, 46320

Category: FOOD SAFETY QUALITY & REGULATORY

Description:

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 Food Safety Quality Regulatory 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.

Position information:

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
This position is based in Hammond, IN.
Work schedule: 12 hr Rotating shift 1st week Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat, Sun from 6:30 am -6:30pm and 2nd week Wed and Thurs from 6:30pm -6::30 am and then it rotates.

Key Accountabilities

Approve final production and assurance of compliance to customer specifications.
Maintain and coordinate the chemist partnership and training systems.
Provide process improvement support, specialized testing, training, audit systems, analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, corrective action and communication regarding processing data, final product and wastewater.
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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to handle multiple priorities with large projects.
Proven ability to anticipate, recognize, solve process and laboratory problems.
Cargill food safety quality and regulatory experience

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet