Food Safety Quality Technician - Rotating Shift

Company: Cargill
Location: Lititz
Posted on: June 29, 2025

Job Description:

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 ImpactThe Food Safety Quality Technician – Rotating Shift will complete moderately complex analytical and laboratorytesting in support of the food safety quality and operational teams. In this role, you will perform routine analysis ofproduct testing and will check and monitor instrumentation performance, conduct tests and document results intodatabases and communicate test results.Key AccountabilitiesConduct routine quantitative and qualitative inspections and laboratory tests on raw materials, in process andfinal 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 andother procedural food safety compliance.Interpret and document results of tests into active databases and communicate results to internal customers asrequired.Run calibration checks, preventive maintenance tasks and simple repair to analytical instrumentation andmaintain 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 generalsupervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.Other duties as assignedQualificationsMinimum QualificationsHigh school diploma, secondary education level or equivalentMinimum of two years of related work experienceAble and willing to work 12 hours rotating shiftAble and willing to work weekends and holidaysExperience working with laboratory instruments and practices.Preferred QualificationsKnowledge of food safety industry practices and standards.Strong computer program professional knowledge: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Outlook.Ability to read and interpret documents (safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and proceduremanuals).Write routine reports and correspondence.LI-DD1themuseFGBPosition InformationRelocation assistance will not be provided for this position.Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet Salary: . Date posted: 05/31/2025

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