Food Safety & Quality Technician

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Job Title: Food Safety & Quality Technician
Location: Emporia, KS, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Cargill, Inc
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Technician
Job Type: Full Time

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 specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

JOB PURPOSE AND IMPACT

The Laboratory 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.

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QUALIFICATIONS

MINIMUM

High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent.
Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

PREFERRED

Ability to read and interpret documents (safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals).
Strong computer program professional knowledge: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Outlook.
Write routine reports and correspondence.

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