Quality Control Chemist Jobs

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Quality Control Chemist will provide expertise with all daily operations in quality control laboratories. In this role, you will develop an in depth understanding of specific systems, ensure that products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety, and act as backup for FSQR roles including the FSQR Lab Technician. The Chemist I will support the buildup and maintenance of the instrumentation platform by providing reliable accurate analytical figures as well as perform validation and troubleshooting of analytical methods to ensure they meet the requirements. In this role, you will analyze malfunctions of instruments and control systems, determine necessary steps for repair, and work with scientific and analytic food safety and quality computer software, and data management systems.
Key Accountabilities
Provide ongoing technical support to stakeholders around food safety and quality performance instruments and control systems by investigating quality problems and deliver improvement actions with follow up.
Perform general maintenance on equipment and develop new and improved food safety and quality measuring and recording equipment.
Perform calibrations on various devices, documenting equipment inspection, testing and repair activities.
Perform method validation and verification to roll out new testing method in the lab.
Document standard operating procedures, identify possible trends in testing results with data analysis software and provide input to team members to improve quality control system.
Organize and maintain accurate and pertinent data, including spreadsheets, graphs, and reports.
Provide process improvement support, specialized testing, training, audit systems, analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot, corrective action and communication regarding processing data and final product.
Assess quality parameters and systems including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, food safety, training, auditing and oversight of analytical testing performed in control rooms.
Assist with customer audits, initiatives and follow ups.
Provide training, coaching, and mentoring to new team members.
PO’s and ordering systems
Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Other duties as assigned.
#LI-GS1 Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Ability to travel to both Bovina, TX and Dalhart, TX as required
Ability to work on call, nights, weekends, holidays as required.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge in calibrate, maintain and troubleshoot various analytical instruments.
Able to work independently and in a team environment, with high initiative level and communicate effectively
Proven ability to anticipate, recognize, solve process and laboratory problems.
Ability to handle multiple priorities with large projects.
Intermediate computer skills
Food safety, quality, and regulatory experience Position Information
Travel to both Bovina, TX and Dalhart, TX is required.
Role is Monday-Friday daytime hours, with on call, nights, weekends, holidays as required.
Relocation assistance may be available for this role.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet