Food Safety and Quality Technician

Food Safety and Quality Technician

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 animal nutrition and health business, where we improve lives through better nutrition. Our team researches, innovates and creates solutions that deliver healthy results for our customers.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety and Quality Technician will complete complex analytical and laboratory testing in support of the food safety quality and operational teams. In this role, you will perform complex analysis of product testing, be responsible for checking and monitoring instrumentation performance, conduct tests and document results into databases and communicate test results.

Key Accountabilities

• Perform routine analysis on final and in process products and ensure that finished products meet required specifications prior to releasing shipments.
• Perform food safety and quality leadership, coaching and mentoring to employees in a pet & livestock feed manufacturing facility.
• Training operators in the production floor and reviewing the documentation.
• Enter data into databases and communicate results verbally or in writing, resolve problems by examining and evaluating data and select corrective steps.
• Assists with the evaluation and interpretation of highly complex data, identifies problems with atypical test results consulting with upper-level personnel.
• Support trials and experiments under the direction of more senior team members.
• Perform food safety and quality leadership, coaching and mentoring to facility employees.
• Handle complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent
• Possesses proven working knowledge of laboratory instrumentation
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Able to work Monday to Friday on morning shift 2am to 10am
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Must be legally entitled to work for Cargill in Canada 

Preferred Qualifications

• Diploma/Certificate or bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of three years of experience within a laboratory or food manufacturing environment
• Experience in a food, pet food, or livestock feed production environment 
• Ability to work as part of a team

Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.