Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Food Technologist
Location: Golden Valley, Minnesota
Pay rate: $21/hr.W2
Duration: 6 Months with possible Extension
Shift timings: 6AM - 2 PM
Key Responsibilities:
- Safely operates equipment, understands food safety requirements and ability to perform risk assessments
- Human and Food Safety Leadership: Can lead teams through projects / efforts to find and resolve safety risks.
- Maintains skills on multiple unit operations / systems; mastery is present on some systems. Can run systems with efficiency / Can teach on some systems. Knowledge and capability drive incremental value to customers. Can train others.
- Leads equipment sanitation activities with capability to inspect following sanitation. Leader in more complex system setup.
- Maintenance/Electrical/Controls with a technical focus
- Ability to lift consistently & repeatedly, manipulate & transport ingredients or equipment, up to 55 lbs.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma (or equivalent) required
- Experience of working in teams to deliver results
- Basic computer/technology skills (Office Suite, other computer programs)
- Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
- Ability to coach, train & develop others
- Translate technical expertise to business impact
- Comfortable in processing (pilot plant or plant) environment
- Confidence in autonomously operating equipment
- Strong communication skills with peers and with customers
- Strong understanding of food safety and human safety
- Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment
- Ability to communicate effectively and contribute to a team environment
- Interpersonal ability to build relationships at all levels within the organization to advance your work
- Ability to diagnose and resolve conflicts with others
- Desire to learn new concepts quickly and apply in productive ways
- Maturity to navigate and lead through stressful situations
- Ability to assess and solve technical/mechanical problems
- Strong self-starter and holds a high regard for quality of work, seeks out opportunity to add value
- Ability to influence others
- Leadership within a team and ownership within your work
- Effectively manage multiple competing priorities
- High efficiency in ways of working
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years of previous work experience in a similar field
- Foodservice & Laboratory experience