R&D Food Scientist

R&D Food Scientist

The R&D Scientist will spend most of their time at the bench creating dry seasoning blends for meats, salty snacks, sauces, dressings, etc. and shipping them to potential customers. Additionally, the person in this position will draw upon their creative background and experience carrying out seasoning development and prepare and give food demonstrations to customers using their seasonings. They will also be encouraged to keep abreast of emerging trends in the food industry.

• Develop dry seasoning blends at the benchtop for industrial customers.
• Prepare food dishes for showing dry seasoning blends or for illustrating culinary targets.
• Create and give presentations to customers.
• Find new raw materials and suppliers that will set their blends apart.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Collaborate with other product developers in the lab.
• Work with Sales to plan and execute presentations to customers and to define seasoning development projects.
• Provide information needed to Supply Chain for costing of blends.
• Provide information needed to Regulatory Affairs for labeling and documentation of blends.
• Provide Operations and QA with documentation and information for scale ups of blends.

$60,000 - $80,000

Available

The right candidate will be someone who is a strong product developer at the bench who likes the  sensory  aspect of the job: i.e., tasting, smelling, etc. They are a  solution  based company and formulates everything to customer specifications so they must be able to come up with creative solutions for their customers, sometimes from scratch with no specs from the customer.

Someone who likes interacting with customers to advise on projects, etc.

Someone who is not looking to climb a career ladder but rather will be content being part of a very small company / R&D team where they will have a great deal of autonomy and creative outlet; there just isn’t room for growth as far as title, etc.

There are a total of 3 in R&D (including this headcount), a head of Quality and Regulatory, Head of Operations, a small sales team (and brokers) and approximately 20 on the production floor.