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
Requirements: - 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
Responsibilities:
- 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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