About the RoleWe're hiring an R&D Food Technologist to help develop, improve, and commercialize high-quality food products. This role is ideal for a technically strong food science professional who enjoys hands-on product development, formulation, plant trials, sensory evaluation, and cross-functional collaboration.
Top Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Food Science required.
- Food product development experience, including formulation, ingredient functionality, sensory evaluation, and commercialization.
- Experience supporting bench-top development, plant trials, scale-up, or initial production runs.
- Strong project management, communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
What You'll Do- Develop new product concepts, prototypes, formulations, and product improvements from idea through commercialization.
- Plan and execute bench-top testing, sensory evaluations, plant trials, and initial production runs.
- Evaluate ingredients, functionality, processing conditions, and product performance to support innovation, quality, and cost objectives.
- Partner with Operations, Quality, Procurement, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders to move projects forward.
- Maintain accurate product development records, specifications, trial notes, and project documentation.
Preferred Experience- 5-7 years of food industry experience in R&D, product development, formulation, commercialization, or related technical work preferred.
- Strong understanding of food ingredients, processing, sensory evaluation, product quality, and scale-up activities.
- Ability to turn technical findings into clear recommendations for product, customer, and business decisions.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects and priorities.
Why Apply?This is a hands-on opportunity to influence product innovation from concept through launch. If you are curious, collaborative, detail-oriented, and passionate about creating great food products, we would like to hear from you.
