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 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

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet

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Food Safety & Quality Technician 3rd shift