Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift

Iowa Ag; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 14,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill in Cedar Rapids, IA is seeking a Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist for a 12-hour rotating shift. You will monitor quality assurance systems, calibrate instrumentation, analyze data, and support production with a focus on food safety and cost minimization.

The role includes training staff and maintaining compliance with safety standards. Qualifications include a related Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and proficiency with email,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team.

Responsibilities

• Assure product meets compliance specifications and final product approval checks.
• Data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective actions and communication of processing data.
• Assess process quality parameters and food safety and quality systems daily, including cross checks, calibration, maintenance and training.
• Train new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators and technicians.
• Escalate more complex issues to appropriate staff and assist with cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Email

Spreadsheets

Word processing

Job description

### Job Details#### Job Title:Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift#### Location:,, ,#### Company:#### Industry Sector:#### Industry Type:#### Career Type:#### Job Type:Full Time#### Minimum Years Experience Required:N/A#### Salary:12.0000 HOUR### 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 - 12 hour rotating shift| 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 - 12 hour rotating shift 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**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* Strong communication skills**Position information:*** Relocation will not be provided for this position* Work schedule:12 hour rotating shift and rotating days| 7:00am - 7:00PM and 7:00PM -7:00am | 1 week - Mon - Tue-Fri, Sat, Sun | 2 week - Wed - Thurs | Every 8 week it rotates from nights to days* Position is based in Cedar Rapids, IAEqual Opportunity Employer, including Disability/VetAt Cargill, we care about your safety and want your job search experience to be a positive one. Unfortunately, there are scams out there where individuals pretend to be Cargill recruiters to try to collect personal information or request payment. Please know that Cargill will **never** ask you for money during the hiring process, and in most cases, we only accept applications through our official careers site, with the exception of some roles in our production plants. If something doesn't feel right or you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us. To learn more, visit our Notice on Fraudulent Job Offers.To 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: 10/01/26Here are some other jobs you may be interested in applying for.| | || - | - || Cargill, Inc Sioux City, Iowa | Cargill, Inc Fort Dodge, Iowa || Elanco Fort Dodge, Iowa | |4 people are interested in this job.