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Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.

Cargill is a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

This position is in Cargill’s food and bioindustrial business, where manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice companies rely on us to consistently deliver the products and services they need, and use our technical expertise and market knowledge to develop innovative products.

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 work weekends and holidays if needed.

• Able and willing to stand for long periods of time

• Able and willing to lift up to 50 pounds

• Able and willing to push and pull up to 55 pounds

Preferred Qualifications

• 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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Position Information

Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet