Food Safety Quality Technician

Pennsylvania Ag Connection; Mount Joy (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Cargill in Mount Joy, PA, is seeking a Food Safety Quality Technician to perform routine laboratory testing, monitor instrumentation, and document results to support our food safety and quality teams.

You will contribute to compliance programs, calibrate instruments, and collaborate across departments to strengthen our food safety culture. This role involves physical tasks and occasional complex issues, with relocation not provided.

Qualifications

• High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent.
• Minimum of two years of related work experience.
• Able and willing to lift up to 40 pounds.
• Able and willing to walk stairs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine quantitative and qualitative inspections and laboratory tests on raw materials, in process and final products.
• Ensure compliance programs for all individual testing and adherence to regulations.
• Interpret and document results into databases and communicate results to internal customers.
• Run calibration checks and preventive maintenance on analytical instrumentation.
• Help develop food safety, quality and regulatory culture across functions.
• Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Stamina & lifting

Stair climbing

Safety awareness

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

SAP (ERP)

MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook)

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 Technician will complete moderately complex analytical and laboratory testing in support of the food safety quality and operational teams. In this role, you will perform routine analysis of product testing and will check and monitor instrumentation performance, conduct tests and document results into databases and communicate test results.

Key Accountabilities

• Conduct routine quantitative and qualitative inspections and laboratory tests on raw materials, in process and final products independently and support more complex trials and experiments under intermediate supervision.
• Ensure compliance programs for all individual testing, which includes monitoring adherence to regulations and other procedural food safety compliance.
• Interpret and document results of tests into active databases and communicate results to internal customers as required.
• Run calibration checks, preventive maintenance tasks and simple repair to analytical instrumentation and maintain customer specifications books.
• Help develop food and feed safety, quality and regulatory culture and collaborate cross functionally to build, maintain and improve an effective food safety, quality and regulatory culture.
• Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under general supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
• Minimum of two years of related work experience
• Able and willing to lift up tp 40 pounds
• Able and willing to walk stairs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with ERP System (SAP).
• Experience working in food production facilities.
• Experience in laboratory testing.
• Strong computer program professional knowledge: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Outlook.
• Ability to read and interpret documents (safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals).
• Write routine reports and correspondence.

Position Information

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

This position is located in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania

Work schedule: 12 hour shift with 7 days on and 7 days off

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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