Food Scientist (Inclusions)

The Food Scientist role supports the company’s vision to become the “go to” ingredient supplier for our customer for innovative products and solutions.  Responsibilities will include hands-on product development, commercial scale-ups, ingredient evaluations that meet the functional, flavor, texture, and cost needs of customers.  This position requires that a person be self-driven, have the ability to multi-task, accurately conduct formulation calculations and documentation for those formulations, be efficient in project work, and maintain project information in an organized manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Independently manage project work in accordance to internal and external customers’ requirements and timelines
• Manage and investigate new ingredients and alternate vendors of existing ingredients that may be used in the development of inclusion systems
• Develop or duplicate various products and concepts for new and existing customers. These products and concepts will include both ingredients and finished consumer product prototypes
• Develop and maintain all project work, formulations, labeling, specifications, and determine and perform appropriate analytical tests for each item
• Prepare written reports on projects as required
• Record and keep current project and technical information in appropriate databases
• Follow projects from laboratory bench level through pilot lab production including supporting writing formula work instructions and supporting the production facilities during scale-up
• Collaborate with Quality and Production to troubleshoot and solve technical production issues
• Collaborate with sales and customers to provide technical support for company-developed ingredients and customer manufactured products
• Travel as appropriate

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Jeff Fee at jfee@cps4jobs.com.

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Technical Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in food science or other biological science and 2 to 7 years of related experience
• Experience with frozen dessert mix formulations, baked items, confectionery ingredients, cultured dairy products, dairy based beverages, non-dairy beverages, sauces, and compound coatings
• Exposure to working with dairy plant or pilot equipment for processing above applications
• Fluent in oral and written English
• Ability to work with company manufacturing, customers, and food consumers
• Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with customers, vendors, and other employees of the organization with and without assistance
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize while maintaining attention to detail
• Ability to work as a member of diverse, cross-functional teams
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, production schedules, purchase orders, maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Ability to work in Microsoft Suite (Power Point, Excel, Word)
• Ability to learn new software such as formula development software and production ERP software.
• Self-initiative, planning skills, and abilities a must
• Self-motivated, resourceful, creative, teachable
• Ability to multi-task and manage time
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of specifications and information furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiple, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to compute percent, density, ratio, and rate
• There are no supervisory responsibilities in this role

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Jeff Fee at jfee@cps4jobs.com.

JO:  226.23JF
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