Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist - 12 hour rotating shift

Iowa Ag; Sioux City (IA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill, Inc in Eddyville, IA is seeking a Food Safety Quality Associate Chemist on a 12-hour rotating shift to ensure products meet quality and safety requirements. You will apply basic understanding of plant processes to monitor QA systems, calibration, crosschecks, and analytical testing in control rooms.

The role includes training of chemists and operators, data analysis, corrective actions, and supporting production to minimize waste and cost while improving customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Willing and able to work 12-hour rotating shift including nights and 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 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

Skills

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Email applications

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:### 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* Willing and able to work 12-hour rotating shift including nights and weekends**Preferred Qualifications*** Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment* Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications* Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions* Ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems, implement improvements based on the findings**Position information:*** Relocation will not be provided for this position* Work schedule: 12 rotating shift | 1 week - Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat, Sun | 2 week Wed and Thurs | 6:00 am -6:00 pm or 12:00pm- 12:00 am | Hours rotates every 4-6 weeks Work occasional nights per business need* Position is based in Eddyville, 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 MASON CITY, Iowa | Cargill, Inc Sioux City, Iowa || Cargill, Inc Fort Dodge, Iowa | |5 people are interested in this job.