Sr. Scientist
The R&D Group is responsible for developing products from concept to commercialization. The Senior Food Technologist / Scientist plays a key role in delivering excellence in product development and production quality execution to ensure flavor, functionality and innovation.
Essential Functions :
- Lead development of new and existing formulas across our frozen food products, while delivering on quality, cost, and commercialization expectations with minimal supervision
- Serve as the meat expert for the R&D team
- Agility in delivering exceptional product quality on aggressive timelines. A sense of urgency with high quality output is essential to the success of this position
- Strong understanding of ingredient functionality, food / meat science, breading and batters
- Ability to translate internal, consumer and customer direction into products that meet the financial, flavor, and functionality goals
- Uphold best practices for bench top development, formulations, and lab standards
- Strong professional integrity and ethics
- Work closely with Regulatory and Labeling & Specifications teams to ensure all regulatory, nutritional, labeling goals are achieved through development
- Collaborate with Commercialization and Operation teams to ensure an efficient translation of product formulas to production facilities
- 20-40% travel required to production facilities and customer presentations
Requirements :
- 3-8 years of product development and / or commercialization experience
- BS Degree in Food Science, Meat Science, Engineering (Food / Process / Chemical) or related field, MS preferred
- Frozen food manufacturing experience is a plus
5 days ago