Food Safety Scientist

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<div class="isg-job-description“>Job Title: Food Safety Scientist
Location: Glenview IL 60025
Duration: 1 year with potential to extend
Shift: 7:30am-3:30pm CST (M-F)
Salary Range: $34.50/hr. – $36.00/hr.
Job Description:

• This role supports the implementation and execution of key food safety design analytical methods within the US and Canada Zones by managing media preparation, quality control activities, and executing project work to develop microbiological and analytical methods needed to support food safety design and commercialization. The position provides onsite laboratory support and project execution support to Corporate Quality & Food Safety, as well as R&D.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Support project completion through media preparation, quality control activities, and through execution of microbial testing on project by project basis
• Supports administrative tasks such as managing inventory, ordering supplies, and data entry.
• Supports the execution of validation studies, to evaluate and approve microbiological test methods (rapid and cultural) for the Food and Beverage Heinz Laboratory network.
• Supports proficiency testing program and internal laboratory audit process for internal factories laboratories.
• This role provides scientific and technical food safety support to US and Canadian business partners to ensure product safety and quality by participating in evaluation of analytical methods.
• Identify and communicate method related impacts on factory verification programs.
• Support validation of designed HACCP preventive controls (Cooking, formulation, etc.) and assess validity of data obtained by others.
• Remain current in scientific and regulatory principles of food safety to ensure most relevant information and emerging issues are identified and incorporated into Food and Beverage Heinz food safety programs.
• Supports cross-functional communication of results with internally and externally generated data.

Required Skills:

• Someone who has worked in lab space previously (in a work environment)
• 1-2 years of prior Microbiology Lab experience (in a work environment)
• Prior experience with autoclaves and media preparation in particular (in a work environment), and basic microbial plating technique (aseptic technique)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, or related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
• 0-2 years of experience of relevant food safety or analytical science work
• Knowledge and experience implementing GLPs(Good Laboratory Practices)
• Experience with LIMS (Laboratory Management Systems) and data management
• Experience with microbiology laboratory techniques and rapid test methods analytical chemistry procedures.
• Awareness of quality systems/processes (ISO, Six Sigma etc.), especially ISO 17025 requirements.

About our Company: –
22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies’ delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.
Recognized among “Best Company to Work For” by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.
“22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer” and “US Citizens & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.”
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

 

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