Job Opportunities at Kemin Industries

Overview

A dedicated and highly skilled Technical Manager with expertise in animal feed safety products used in animal feed mills. The ideal candidate will play a vital role in ensuring the quality, safety, and compliance of animal feed production through the implementation of KEMIN product solutions and services. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead a technical service team, assist in the development of innovative products and services, and contribute to the advancement of animal feed safety in the industry.

This position will support, promote, and grow Kemin feed safety business within Sub-Sahara Africa and will therefore require significant travel within and outside the borders of South Africa. The position will be responsible for reviewing and providing technical reporting and support to the Account Managers, Marketing Team and their customers.

Other key focus areas will be leading the technical support team, provide training and developing technical literature, recognising customer needs, coordinating trials and programmes for the various CLS (Customer Laboratory Services) functions and then management of the related processes. Close cooperation with various functions including Sales, Marketing, Laboratory and Product Application is essential in order to drive our service delivery.

We are looking for an applicant with a vibrant personality that is willing to learn across different areas of expertise. Someone with an exceptional work ethic and attitude that is willing to work hard. Finally, someone that enjoys working meticulously and enjoys the combination of planning/training/administration. In turn we offer a dynamic and diverse work environment with opportunities to grow and learn new skills. Being a team player is a must for this position.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead and manage a team of technical support specialists in the development and maintenance of KEMIN feed safety products, and services ensuring the highest standards of quality and performance.
• Product and Service Development: Collaborate with the research and development teams to drive the creation and improvement of animal feed safety products, considering market needs and regulatory requirements.
• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with Quality department quality control procedures, including product testing, validation, and compliance checks, to ensure that all products meet safety and regulatory standards.
• Regulatory Compliance: Stay up to date with local and international regulations related to animal feed safety and ensure that all products adhere to these standards.
• Technical Support: Provide technical support and guidance to account managers and customers, including animal feed mills and raw production facilities, to optimize the use of safety products and services and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including sales and marketing, to develop technical documents, and educational materials for customers.
• Research and Innovation: Stay informed about emerging technologies and trends in animal feed safety and initiate or participate in research projects that lead to innovative product and service development.
• Training and Education: Develop training programs for internal teams and external customers to ensure proper handling, application, and benefits of animal feed safety products and services.
• Reporting: Assume ultimate responsibility for the compilation, expert interpretation, and dissemination of customer CLS reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Animal Science, Food Safety, or a related technical field. A Ph.D. is a plus.
• Extensive experience in animal feed safety products and services, with a track record of success.
• In-depth knowledge of feed mill operations, quality control, and regulatory compliance.
• Strong project management and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulations related to animal feed safety.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical services teams and achieve strategic objectives.
• Willingness to stay current in the field and adapt to evolving industry trends and regulations.

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Overview

This position is for a senior product innovation associate in Kemin Industries’ Process Innovation team (chiefly chemistry). The primary responsibility is assisting in projects surrounding method development, formulation, product development and product innovation. You take on the duty of timely providing high quality experimental data.

Responsibilities

General

• Computer literate, ability to make efficient use of spread sheets, text editors and presentation software (eg Microsoft office.
• Understanding of and adherence to quality systems (ISO 9001), 5S principles, and Good Laboratory Practice requirements, understanding and strictly following SOP’s and analytical.
• Understanding the function of the instrumentation used to obtain reliable and reproducible results and being able to identify, trouble shoot and report inconsistent instrument.
• Sound report writing in the event of an investigation.
• Understand, read, and record instrument data; analyse and tabulate data; keep detailed laboratory
• Time management to ensure project milestones are adhered to.
• Assist in the validation of the existing portfolio of all current methods of analyses according to SANAS 17025.
• Waste management for the areas responsible for.
• As part of the larger innovation team, being able to perform back-up lab.     

For Product Innovation

• Understand the principles behind the instrumentation used in the lab: in particular chromatographic separation (eg. LC, GC), spectrometry (UV-VIS, FLD, FT-NIRS, MS), titration, densitrometry.
• New product development initiated by and in collaboration with the product innovation expert. This would entail creation of regular project update reports, reporting, discussing and presenting results of experiments conducted as required.
• Execution and/or analyses of all stability study related.
• Assist in the development of novel/efficient methods of
• Training and project support for the service innovation
• Help with problem solving (customer complaints, operational challenges).
• Keep abreast of technological advances in the field.
• Ability to perform basic math calculations including arithmetic, calculus, and statistical data analyses (Regression, (Z)score, t-student).
• Ability to deliver results in a scientific sound manner.

Qualifications

• Tech in Chemistry (or equal by professional development) and with 3 years of laboratory experience.
• Experience with instruments.
• Very hands on and excellent organizational.
• Meticulous.
• Flexible, diligent and a good team player with self-motivation.
• Well-developed oral and written skills. 
• Able to manage time and tasks allowing concurrent and/ or overlapping tasks to be done.
• A good and open communicator.
• Team player.