Food Safety and Nutrition Technician | Business Process Professional
- Employer
- Michigan State University
- Location
- East Lansing
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- Administrative Jobs
- Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians, Institutional & Business Affairs, Auxiliary Services, Business & Financial Management
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Work type: Support Staff
Pay Grade: 12
Major Administrative Unit / College: Michigan State University Extension
Department: Extension Community Food And Environment 10058942
Sub Area: AP- Professionals
Salary: Salary Commensurate with Experience
Location: East Lansing
Categories: Administrative/Business/Professional, Agriculture, Education/Training, Health Care Professional, Health Care Support, Office/Clerical Support, Administrative Professionals- AP, Full Time (90-100%), Union
Working/Functional Title
Food Safety and Nutrition Technician
Position SummaryMichigan State University Extension is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive organization, which requires all staff to contribute towards a vision for success. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our work, regardless of title or position within the organization. This means that all staff at MSU Extension are dedicated to the following:
POSITION SUMMARY
Responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting business processes associated with departmental activities with the goal to optimize available processes and technologies to assist in the management of the department’s assets. All projects are intended to increase efficiency and to meet strategic goals and objectives.
The Food Safety and Nutrition Technician will work in collaboration with the MSU Product Center Services Coordinator to provide direct service to MSU Product Center clients. These services include Process Authority Review, creation of Nutrition Facts labels, food safety and processing plans. This position will interact with professors in Food Science and Human Nutrition to access technical information. This position will also provide back-up support for general client services.
This position will be located at the MSU Product Center in Okemos, MI.
This position is a full-time, end-dated appointment renewable annually based on continued funding.
Characteristic Duties/Responsibilities
Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in a business-related field or in a field which corresponds to the particular department of employment; three to five years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in office procedures and administration, or in performing responsibilities related to the operational activities of the employing unit; experience with word processing, database, spreadsheet, presentation software and/or desktop publishing, web page software; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Desired QualificationsAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.
Required Application MaterialsGenerally 40 hours Monday through Friday, with some nights and weekends needed
Description of End DateThis is an off-dated position funded for one year from date of hire, with possible extension contingent upon funding renewal.
WebsiteBidding eligibility ends March 21, 11:55 PMAdvertised: Mar 15, 2023 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: Apr 11, 2023 Eastern Daylight Time
Organization
Working at Michigan State University
Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.
Together, we tackle some of the world’s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better—from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.
We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.
We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.
The nation’s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.
Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world—on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we’re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.
In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.
Top Distinctions
U.S. News & World Report ranks MSU
- 29th among the nation’s public universities
- First in the nation for 19 years for graduate programs in elementary and secondary education
- First in the nation for graduate programs in nuclear physics and industrial and organizational psychology
- First in the nation for undergraduate program in supply chain
Recognized for 11 consecutive years as one of the top 100 universities in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in its annual Academic Ranking of World Universities
Ranks 46th among public universities for in-state students in Kiplinger’s 2013 edition of Best Values in Public Colleges
Silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s STARS program, which measures and encourages sustainability in education and research; operations; and planning, administration, and engagement
Member of the prestigious 62-member Association of American Universities
Only university in the country with on-campus medical schools graduating allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) physicians, and veterinarians (DVMs)
Among the largest single-campus residence hall system in the country with 27 halls in five neighborhoods and two apartment villages.
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