Food Safety Quality Chemist (12hr rotating shifts)

Ohio Ag Connection; Dayton (OH); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill is seeking a Food Safety Quality Chemist based in Dayton, Ohio. The role focuses on ensuring product quality and food safety by applying knowledge of plant processes and calibrating instruments, maintaining procedures, and supporting production operations.

Responsibilities include data analysis, trend identification, corrective actions, and supervision of analytical testing. The candidate will train new staff and work with cross-functional teams to minimize waste and improve customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Ability to work nights, weekends and holidays.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate processes and data.
• Experience with email, spreadsheets and word processing applications.

Responsibilities

• Ensure products meet quality and food safety specifications.
• Analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, and communicate findings.
• Monitor processing data and oversee analytical testing in control rooms.
• Provide basic training to new food safety and quality staff.
• Escalate complex issues to senior staff as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Analytical skills

Night/weekend/holiday shifts

Communication tools (email, Excel,Word

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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 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.

Position Information

• Position is based in Dayton, Ohio
• Relocation assistance is NOT provided for this role
• The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position

Qualifications

MINIMUM

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Ability to work nights, weekends and holidays

PREFERRED

• Previous laboratory experience
• 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

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet