Job Description:

Job title: Pilot Plant Technician

Duration: 1 year

Hours: standard 40 hour work week. Monday through Friday. Start time between 7-9 am for 8 hour work day. Flexibility to work some evenings/overnights support maybe required due to projects.

Dress code: casual (ie. jeans and polo)

Prescreens: HireRight background check, Drug Screen (5 panel expanded opiates), Pre-employment physical, lifting assessment (50 lbs) and mobility assessment

**in-person interviews will be required before an offer is extended

This position is located in Plymouth, MN at the Client Minneapolis R&D Center with the Starches and Sweeteners North America R&D group and is responsible for providing support to research scientists in the completion of research projects or activities. Candidate will also be responsible for conducting piloting trials in a food grade laboratory, routine analysis, reporting and communicating results. In addition, this person will be responsible for maintaining pilot plant equipment, and ensuring EHS and Food safety compliance.

• Supports a core technology component area for the Starches and Sweeteners business as well as customers. Supports the research group in a given implementation of business defined technology needs.
• Serves as a piloting team resource in one or more broad core technology components:
• Core Technologies (e.g. separations, fermentation, product safety, milling and grinding)
• Enabling sciences (e.g. process modeling, toxicology, advanced analytics, sensory, nutrition, sensory, chemistry)
• Ingredients/Product Lines (e.g. Sweeteners, Dextrose, Fat/Oils)
• Food Applications (e.g. dairy, convenience, beverages)
• Feed Applications (e.g. ruminants, pork, poultry, equine)

Principal Accountabilities:

• 20% - Provide support to research scientists in the completion of research projects or activities
• 55% - Conduct pilot trials, routine experiments, organizing and communicating results; may provide routine analysis as needed
• 10% - Maintain pilot/laboratory equipment
• 10% - Ensure corporate EHS and Food Safety compliance
• 5% - Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned

Required:

• Bachelor of Science degree in , Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Food Science or related Science field
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety in the job environment
• Ability to work effectively and cooperatively in a team environment
• Ability to execute designed experiments as well as troubleshoot and make corrections during experimentation
• Microsoft Office suite

Preferred:

• 6 months plus experience in a food grade pilot plant environment
• Hands-on experience in microbiology sampling, sterile technique and/or fermentation principles and operation.
• Experience in setup and operation of lab and/or pilot scale fermentations.
• Experience with downstream purification technologies, such as chromatography, separations (e.g., centrifugation, filtration, membrane separation), crystallization and evaporation

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $24.00 - $26.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• microbiology lab: 3 years (Preferred)
• sterile technique: 3 years (Preferred)
• downstream purification: 3 years (Preferred)
• chromatography, separations: 2 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Plymouth, IA 50464 (Required)

Work Location: In person