Since 1968, our facility in Minster, Ohio, has produced fresh yogurt. Our mission is to provide nutritious and tasty food to individuals and families. Please apply if you are interested in a progressive career in a manufacturing environment producing the products you and your family have grown to love, including Fruit on the Bottom, Activia, Oikos, Triple Zero and Danimals.
Danone North America is looking for a Quality Lab Technician on Night Shift in Minster, Ohio.
As a Quality Laboratory Technician (Lab Tech), you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and quality of our products through detailed microbiological analysis of both finished goods and in-process samples. The Lab Tech collects samples of yogurt from production and performs analytical tests on product and ingredients. They also help Quality Engineers to disposition product for our production teams. The Lab Tech helps to trouble shoot issues with viscosity, taste, pH, color, and will help to determine sanitation issues at the filling line.
Specific Job Duties and Tasks:
Preferred Qualifications:
Associates degree in a science field or equivalent experience in a quality position is preferred
Essential Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Ability to work a 12-hour night schedule to support a 24/7 operation.
Work in a Team Oriented environment
Strong communication skills
Flexibility
Self-Motivator
Leadership and organizational skills
Language Skills, fluent in English
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees at all levels of the organization
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
Reasoning ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
Strong computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access) and multiple scheduling software programs (e.g., WMS and SAP), as well as the ability to complete computer-based safety training.
With headquarters in Broomfield, CO and White Plains, NY, Danone North America has more than 6,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada, and more than a dozen manufacturing facilities across North America. Our employees enjoy competitive pay and industry-leading benefits (including flexible (unlimited) time off and up to 26 weeks paid parental leave), and share a common mission and culture committed to both business results and social purpose. When you join Danone North America, you become part of a global team that is inspiring a healthier world through food.
Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.
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