Food Safety Quality Regulatory Laboratory Technician - rotating shift

Utah State Extension; Regina; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in agricultural solutions seeks a Food Safety Quality Regulatory Laboratory Technician to ensure compliance with quality standards. The position involves monitoring quality assurance systems, performing data analysis, and training personnel. Ideal candidates will be detail-oriented and capable of thriving in a fast-paced lab environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a laboratory and taking samples is essential.
• Proficiency in data analysis management and maintaining instrumentation required.
• Ability to work on 12-hour rotating shifts, including holidays.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product meets compliance specifications and overall approval checks.
• Conduct data analysis and trend identification for processing data.
• Train new food safety and quality personnel and handle basic issues.

Skills

Data analysis

Troubleshooting

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Diploma/Certificate or bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job 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 agricultural supply chain business. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver essential products.

Job Purpose and Impact

As Food Safety Quality Regulatory Laboratory Technician - rotating shift, you will ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. Assurance of product quality will require you to monitor quality assurance systems including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, cross-checks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety, and training. Additionally, you will understand our plant processes and provide technical advice to support our production operations. We are measuring impact to customer happiness, minimization of process variation, process recoveries, waste reduction, and cost minimization.

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

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Diploma/Certificate or bachelor's degree in a related field (Chemistry, Agriculture, Biology, Microbiology) or equivalent experience
• Able to work on day and rotating cycle shift (day and night 12 hours shift), including holidays and weekend as business needs
• Experience working in a laboratory, taking samples, on data analysis management and maintenance of instrumentation
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
• Ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems, implement improvements based on the findings
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities

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Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.

Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.