Ingredient Scientist

Turkey Hill Dairy
Conestoga, PA 17516, USA

Come check out Turkey Hill!

We’re a growing, nationwide company, born and raised in Southcentral Pennsylvania, that has been creating delicious ice cream and beverages since 1931. We offer competitive pay, great benefits, and leadership development opportunities with career-growth potential – join our team today!

* This position is fully on-site located in Conestoga, PA.*

The Ingredient Scientist
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The Ingredient Scientist role is responsible for driving cost savings initiatives (CSIs) through ingredient review and cross-functional collaboration, while supporting frozen and beverage product development projects as needed.

• Collaborate cross-functional cost savings initiatives, including ingredient matching, replacements, and new ingredient development.
• Accountable to track, deliver, and execute cost savings projects.
• Manage and prioritize each cost savings project timeline.
• Proven workload management with multiple active projects.
• Design and execute line trials to validate new ingredients and formulations, ensuring processing feasibility (including CSI items).
• Collaborate and communicate closely with Operations and Supply Chain to ensure seamless scale-up and implementation.
• Create and perform benchtop analyses of new ingredients and formulations to ensure accurate product matching prior to scale-up.
• Perform all duties in compliance with all corporate and regulatory quality, GLP, and safety regulations.
• Support the development, implementation, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of Safe Quality Foods (SQF) Food Safety and Quality.
• Demonstrate the ability to engage work in department and cross-functional teams to define and implement process improvements that provide value to the customer.
• Be accountable to the Turkey Hill Food Safety and Quality Principles.
• Perform all duties within established Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and FSMA guidelines as well as all safety regulations.
• Comply with Safe Quality Foods (SQF) food safety and quality standards.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

You could be a great fit if you have these things –

• B.S. or M.S. in Food, Dairy, or related science field with a minimum 3 years within an R&D function demonstrating capability with benchtop application and in project management with keen agility in consumer product goods (CPG) company and ideally within the food and/or beverage category
• Strong computer skills, especially in the MS Office suite
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong communication skills (written and oral)

Our associates enjoy these awesome benefits –

• Life insurance, short-term & long-term disability
• 401(k) with company match – immediately vested
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Earn vacation and PTO
• Educational assistance reimbursement
• Company bonus plan
• Free ice cream and beverages!

Physical Demands -

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

• The employee is required to talk and/or hear in an office setting (noise level is low) and manufacturing setting where noise levels can be high (PPE required).
• The employee is frequently required to stand and walk in an office or manufacturing environment from 4-8+ hours.
• The employee must be able to ascend and descend stairs, and where applicable and when necessary, to perform various job-related tasks.
• Must be able to position self to move, reach with arms/hands, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as needed to perform various job-related tasks.
• The employee must be able to inspect all job-related equipment (office or floor) to ensure it is in good working condition prior to use. Must be able to use hands/fingers to handle (or feel) to operate various types of office…