Laboratory Technician
Cargill
- Location
- Onsite (Fort Dodge, Iowa)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
About the role
Cargill's Food Enterprise seeks a Laboratory Technician to perform analytical testing on raw materials and finished products, ensuring food safety and quality compliance. The role involves maintaining instrumentation, documenting results, and supporting regulatory efforts within a global agricultural and food solutions company.
Skills
Full job details
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 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
Position Information
- Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
Qualifications
Minimum Required
- 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.
- Food manufacturing laboratory experience
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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