Food Safety Quality Regulatory Laboratory Technician - rotating shift

Cargill; Regina; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the agricultural supply chain seeks a Food Safety Quality Regulatory Laboratory Technician for rotating shifts. This role involves ensuring product quality and safety, monitoring compliance, and providing technical support to production operations. Ideal candidates will have a solid educational background in relevant fields and experience in laboratory settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in a laboratory and data analysis management.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

Responsibilities

• Ensure products meet compliance specifications.
• Conduct data analysis and trend identification.
• Train new food safety and quality personnel.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Data analysis

Education

Diploma/Certificate or bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Agriculture, Biology, Microbiology

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Food Safety Quality Regulatory Laboratory Technician - rotating shift

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.

About the company

Our team of 160,000 professionals in 70 countries draws together the worlds of food, agriculture, nutrition and risk management. For more than 150 years, we have helped farmers grow more, connecting them to broader markets. We are continuously developing products that give consumers just what they’re seeking, advancing nutrition, food safety and sustainability. And we help all of our partners innovate and manage risk, so they can nourish the world again tomorrow.

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