Lab Technician

Lab Technician

The Lab Technician ensures the integrity and safety of food products throughout the manufacturing process utilizing various standards and established testing methods, operating procedures, and adherence to protocols and policies.

After completion of training, the person in this role will primarily work a twelve-hour rotating shift to include overtime, nights, holidays, and weekends. The starting hourly wage varies from $25 to $36 depending on experience.

What You'll Be Doing :

• Demonstrates a commitment to supply safe food, maintain a food safety culture within the site, continually improve the site's food safety management system; and comply with customer and regulatory requirements.
• Performs physical and chemical testing of raw materials, in-process samples and finished products.
• Ensures timely delivery of test results and verifies that results conform to product and customer specifications; issuing certificates of analysis, filing testing information, and maintaining analysis databases.
• Performs set up, adjustments, and operation of lab equipment, including gas & liquid chromatographs, balances, colorimeters, refractometers, and other related equipment.
• Calibrates instruments used in the Quality Control lab stations in the plant and in the QA laboratory on a scheduled frequency.
• Troubleshoots issues with lab instrumentation, lab maintenance, and problems that affect product quality.
• Assists with general upkeep of the lab including cleaning of lab instruments, glass bottles, vials and tubes, as well as counters, cabinets, fixtures, and infrastructure.
• Maintains inventory of lab chemicals to ensure secure storing, adequate supply, safe and correct disposal of waste chemicals, and to prevent storage of expired stock.
• Updates and maintains critical logs; generates related graphs, charts and tables.
• Effectively communicates laboratory findings to leadership; Must also communicate cross functionally among team members.
• Follows all site safety procedures per company policy and maintains a safe working environment.
• Performs other duties as assigned or needed.

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

At Bunge, people don't just come here to work, they come here to grow solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse and talented team working to make us the most innovative and dynamic company in our industry.

Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package and most importantly, in all we do we live our values :

Benefits :

Time is accrued per pay period and based on a 12-hour shift.

Bunge (NYSE : BG) is a world leader in sourcing, processing and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients. Founded in 1818, Bunge's expansive network feeds and fuels a growing world, creating sustainable products and opportunities for more than 70,000 farmers and the consumers they serve across the globe. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and has 25,000 employees worldwide who stand behind more than 350 port terminals, oilseed processing plants, grain facilities, and food and ingredient production and packaging facilities around the world.

Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans / Disabled