Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist

Iowa Ag; Fort Dodge (IA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill seeks a Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist in Fort Dodge, IA to ensure products meet quality and safety standards. The role applies plant-process knowledge to QA systems, calibrations, and crosschecks, supporting production for consistent quality and cost efficiency.

The position emphasizes training, cross-functional collaboration, and adherence to procedures, with a shift schedule that includes days and upcoming longer 12-hour rotations, located at the Fort Dodge site.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Willing and able to work on rotating shifts including weekends.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions.

Responsibilities

• 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 calibration, maintenance, procedures and training.
• Training of new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators, technicians and personnel from other functional areas.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data analysis

Training

Adaptability

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Spreadsheet

Word processing

Email

Job description

### Job Details#### Job Title:Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist#### Location:,, ,#### Company:#### Industry Sector:#### Industry Type:#### Career Type:#### Job Type:Full Time#### Minimum Years Experience Required:N/A#### Salary:### Get Job Alerts**Career Type:** Quality Assurance**Country:** USAI agree to receive alerts from and to the .Your alert was created successfully.x## General Alert Saved* The listings below are jobs matching the criteria you've selected for your General Alert on.Criteria selected was:* General alert saved for .* General alert notifications will be sent weekly on Monday.* Please note that you can only have one general alert active at any given time. Creating a new general alert will override an existing general alert.* Visit the to manage your alerts# Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist| Number of Years Experience: | Minimum Education Completed: | || Education Major / Discipline Category: | Most Recent / Current Occupation: | |Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.**Job Purpose and Impact**The Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist, 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.* 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* Willing and able to work on a rotating shift including weekends**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* Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications**Position information:*** Relocation will not be provided for this position* Work schedule: Dayshift Mon - Fri 7am -4:30pm to start and then it will change to a 12hr shift from 6:00am -6:00pm with rotating days and occasional weekends and holidays* Position is based in Fort Dodge, IAEqual Opportunity Employer, including Disability/VetTo apply using chat/text, please click Apply Now button OR use this link to create a login to apply.To apply please click on APPLY TO THIS POSITIONJob Post Date: 07/17/26Here are some other jobs you may be interested in applying for.| | || - | - || Cargill, Inc EDDYVILLE, Iowa | Cargill, Inc Cedar Rapids, Iowa || Cargill, Inc Sioux City, Iowa | |5 people are interested in this job.