Scientist, Food Production

Overview

Title: Food Scientist

Location: Quincy MA

Schedule: M-F 8-5 onsite daily

Start: ASAP

Education: BS/MS/PhD in Food Science/Engineering/related science or engineering field

• 4+ years of experience in Beverage Product Development.
• Knowledgeable about food chemistry, sensory, microbiology, food packaging systems and food engineering.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams at multi levels within the organization
• Able to work independently, problem solve
• Oversee a team of 2 scientists and 2 lab tech as needed

• Conduct research including new product research and the development of foods.
• Develop new and improved methods and systems for food processing, production, quality control and packaging.
• Work in pilot plant and support production scale ups and commercialization's.
• Field customer requests both internal and external to satisfy project needs from a conceptual phase through commercialization and troubleshooting.
• Participate in ideation/brainstorming
• Develop gold standards while working with Culinary and subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Match competitive products
• Formulation Optimization
• Concept to Commercialization
• Execute internal processes
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot customer processes
• Be a strong part of customer facing team to deliver solutions that will “Nourish and Delight” our customers.
• Coordinate customer calls with sales/culinary representatives through presentations both technical and culinary based.
• Work with cross functional groups to optimize the strengths of the various teams and deliver the best Taste and Nutrition experience for our customers
• Develop and protect Intellectual Property by documenting research notes.
• Study methods to improve quality of foods such as flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, convenience, or physical, chemical, and microbiological composition of foods
• Complete project requests within the time frame required by the customer.
• Assist customers with technical issues that may arise.
• Travel to Kerry production plants and to customers.
• Must be able to taste and smell chemicals, flavors and food products.
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time in a laboratory setting and lift 50 pounds.

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