Senior Development Chemist
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Description
Cargill Specialty Seeds & Oils develops, produces and markets high-performance specialty oils. Our business is backed by an intellectual property position in the genetic engineering of canola and oil seeds. We develop proprietary planting seeds commercialize specialty oils to food industry.
Position Overview:
The Senior Development Chemist position supports oilseed research and product development for Cargill oil business units. Leads projects and technology initiatives independently; conceives, plans, and executes research projects to ensure product developments and launch; assesses and implements emerging technology in commercial applications; evaluates soundness of experimental approaches, techniques, and results to ensure data integrity; improves and develops new techniques and procedures to improve experimental effectiveness and development efficiency; creates new oil products for food and frying applications
Principal Accountabilities:
40% - Management and execution of BU strategic projects
25% - Innovation through creating new oil formulas and frying systems
25% - Support Technical Services activities
10% - Develops and implements new analytical tools to support project execution
Qualifications
Required:
- B.S. in Food Science, or related field
- Minimum 5 years of experience in food industry R&D
- Proven ability to execute projects from planning to reporting with minimal supervision
- Proven experience in Prototyping to meet project objective, and scale ups for commercial production
- Flexible, organized, ability to handle multiple priorities
- Effective interpersonal and team working skills
- Effective communications skills (verbal, written, listening and presentation)
- Proficient computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
- Ability to lift 50 lbs. routinely
- Ability to travel up to 25%
Preferred:
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Food Sciences with focus study in Lipid chemistry
- 3 years of full time working experience in edible oil industry
- Working experience in using HPLC, TLC, GC, wet chemistry, and solvent extraction
- Innovative, independent thinker, and problem solving using multiple disciplines
Cargill is an EEO/AA employer.
Job
Research and Development
Primary Location
US-CO-Fort Collins
Schedule
Full-time
Job Type
Standard
Shift
Day Job
Cargill - 4 months ago
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