Food Scientist
Food Scientist
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Job Description
Title: Food Scientist
Location: New Century, KS
Skills: Dairy, Food, Ingredient, Flavor
Job Description:
- A Food Scientist II should exhibit proven product design capabilities and project planning abilities utilizing creativity, innovation, and presentations skills to provide best-in-class support to clients.
- Continues to extend knowledge of ingredients, customer bases, processes, and flavor interactions in category applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Proven time and project management skills
- Partners with production and quality department to complete scale-up trials and support QA/QC with trouble shooting when necessary.
- Independently manages time and projects for assigned tasks.
- Develops work-plans to manage work for projects.
- Provide technical guidance on unusual or complex problems.
- Develops finished product formulations incorporating client technologies and meeting industrial standards, country specific and client requirements (profile, legal, cost and stability requirements).
- Works on projects for key local, strategic, and regional customers with commercial success.
- Refines attributes (taste and texture) language and articulates with team and project members.
- Continuously evolves/expands knowledge of ingredients and materials for Product Design.
- Participates in new concept generation.
Innovation & Technology
- Supports local and regional C&D (Creation & Design) and Category Growth Initiatives under direction from manager.
- Successfully demonstrates new technology in appropriate projects.
- Demonstrates an understanding of client Innovation Programs.
- Clear understanding and execution of client Innovation processes.
- Understands ingredient functionality and flavor performance in different finished products and incorporates technology appropriately.
- May assist with the development of new product and application literature, including Technical Reports.
CUSTOMER INTIMACY & TECHNICAL PARTNERSHIP
- Provide technical services to customers as needed (plant trials, troubleshooting, and training).
- Demonstrates an understanding of customers, category markets, brand understanding, and consumer preferences.
- Visits customers and presents technical information and taste and texture design concepts.
- Develops strong relationships with aligned customers and related categories.
- Assist customers by participating in in-house visits, answering technical questions, and conducting seminars and presentations as assigned.
LEADERSHIP
- Shows positive attitude and passion
- Shares knowledge with the team and provides guidance to Trainee/Associate Designers
- Demonstrates ability to work within a team
- Inspires and build confidence in others to achieve targets.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum 7 years working experience in industrial food, ingredient, or flavor industry plus a minimum 2 years in the specific field of expertise.
- Minimum entry level is a University/College Degree in Food Science and Technology or related disciplines (such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology)
- Preferred Master's Degree in related area
- Strong communication (verbal and written), organizational and interpersonal skills are necessary
- Travel may be required up to 30% of the time.
- Workplace: This position is considered an Anchor and requires working in the lab/pilot plant for 5 days/week.
Employment Type
Full Time
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