Overview
Food Safety Quality Chemist Jobs in Watkins Glen, New York, USA at Queens County Bar Association
Location: Watkins Glen
Cargill’s size and scale allow 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 vital for daily life. We connect farmers with markets to help them prosper, and connect customers with ingredients to create beloved meals. We also supply families with essentials—from eggs and edible oils to salt, skincare, feed, and alternative fuels. With 160,000 colleagues across 70 countries, we produce essential products touching billions of lives daily.
Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
This position is within Cargill’s protein and salt business, where we deliver high-quality, wholesome food products to diverse customers, including food service operators, grocery stores, manufacturers, and exporters.
Job
Purpose
and Impact
The Food Safety Quality Chemist will ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. You will apply your understanding of plant processes to monitor quality assurance systems, including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety, and training. You will provide technical advice and support to production operations to ensure product quality, minimize process variation, reduce waste, and improve customer satisfaction.
Key
Accountabilities
Ensure products meet compliance specifications and perform final product approval checks.
Analyze data, identify trends, troubleshoot issues, implement corrective actions, and communicate findings.
Assess daily process quality parameters and oversee food safety and quality systems, including cross-checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, training, and analytical testing in control rooms.
Train new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators, technicians, and personnel from other areas.
Work under direct supervision, handling basic issues, and escalate complex problems to higher-level staff.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Flexibility and availability for overtime as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
4 years of experience in a production or manufacturing QA role.
Experience with instrumentation maintenance and troubleshooting.
Laboratory experience in industry.
Quality assurance experience.
Ability to adapt and learn in a changing environment.
Proficiency with email, spreadsheets, and word processing.
Strong analytical skills for evaluating change factors and making decisions.
Ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve process and laboratory problems, and implement improvements.
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Position Information
Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.
Position based in Watkins Glen, NY.
The expected salary range is $62,000 – $72,000, depending on factors such as location, certifications, education, and experience. The range may be adjusted based on geographic differentials.
At Cargill, we prioritize our people. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical and other benefits, depending on the position and hours worked. Learn more at: Â (subject to collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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Title: Food Safety Quality Chemist
Company: Queens County Bar Association
Location: Watkins Glen, New York, USA
Category: Quality Assurance – QA/QC (Quality Control / Manager, Quality Technician/ Inspector, Food Quality & Safety, Quality Engineering), Manufacturing / Production (Quality Engineering)
