Description

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Swine Trial Application Scientist will manage research and develop excellent criteria such as protocols, coordination, timeline respect in trial deliverables and line of site to innovation unit and data. In this role, you will contribute to the delivery of innovative research and projects through supporting researchers with trial execution, protocols and data. You will be accountable for a core area within enabling science or trial application and supporting the innovations centers, in systems and in markets.

This role requires the candidate to reside in Dayton - Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky. The position is home-based and will provide support across these territories. Regular travel is approximately 40% required to visit farms within the assigned area.

Key Accountabilities

• Plan and perform quality assurance for trials and keep continuous and active dialogues with researchers, species unit, lab and feed processing.
• Lead continuous improvement together with trial teams using measurable performance indicators and drive scientific method development in cooperation with researchers.
• Ensure all standard operating procedures are followed and updated and trials comply to the safety program and animal care policies and provide coaching to technicians for trial execution.
• Responsible for the setup, monitoring, recording and reporting of trial results with appropriate partners.
• Work with scientists and feed processing technicians to ensure accurate formulation and ingredient procurement.
• Lead core activities for trial or unit excellence in food safety, quality and regulatory and animal welfare, that includes coordinating resources, updates for trial findings and performance of statistical analysis.
• Act as customer liaison to identify how market trends affect the business to enable appropriate decision making.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of two years of relevant work experience
• Relevant experience in formulation and statistics
• Experience or knowledge in swine nutrition or animal nutrition and health
• Able to travel up to 40%

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in animal science, nutrition or related science
• Experience in running research trials prefer focus in swine
• Analytical statistics knowledge
• Multi species experience in research trials
• Innovative, agile thinking and adatability with strong attention to details

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet