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Swine Trial Application Scientist

Cargill is hiring a Swine Trial Application Scientist to lead and support innovative swine nutrition research. This home-based role  focuses on managing trials, ensuring data accuracy and animal welfare compliance, and collaborating with research and innovation teams to deliver high-quality results in animal nutrition and health. If interested more information Here

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.