Associate Ingredient Scientist

The Scientific team at Russell Tobin is hiring an Associate Ingredient Scientist for an exciting food and beverage organization near Burlington, MA.

• Supports development of ingredient specifications.
• Collect critical documents to ensure clients ingredients meet the required FDA standards.
• Leads projects that impact ingredients, such as new supplier requirement updates, cost savings initiatives, supply issues or production challenges.
• Works with Product Development and other functions of R&D such as Sensory, Ingredients, Nutrition, Regulatory, Flavor Technology, Process Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology.
• Develop / Update SOPs and training for job function as needed.
• Communicates with vendors to obtain required documentation.

• B.S. in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology or allied field.
• 1-3 years of experience in related function within food/beverage (R&D, Quality) or client internship.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

• Position Type: 9 month contract opportunity with strong potential to extend up to 12 months.
• Pay rate range approved: $30.50 - 34.50/hr depending on experience.

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