Senior Food Scientist
Senior Food Scientist
Wellington Executive Search
Grafton, WI
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The Senior Food Scientist is responsible for flavor development, food formulations, product evaluations, validations, and new food application development projects for customers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Evaluate and/or validate flavor and food formulations based on business needs. Work on customer driven projects to achieve various objectives, such as formulation with new and innovative ingredients, cost reduction, product matching, flavor enhancement, flavor masking, and clean label improvements.
- Learn and use processing equipment in lab and pilot plant with minimal supervision. Scale up formulas from kitchen/lab-scale environment to pilot plant and production.
- Prepare simple application kits or develop concepts into demonstrations that can be used by sales managers during sales visits and trade events.
- Handle simple to complex flavor and food formulation projects in a timely manner. Interacts with external customers, internal applications scientists and other departments internally as needed in defining specific parameters, objectives, and timelines for projects.
Education and/or Experience:
- BS in Food Science or other natural science required. Master’s degree in Food Science preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years post-college experience working in food research and development, applications with food ingredients and formulations, new product development, and team projects
- Must be comfortable speaking directly with and interacting with customers which are a variety of food and beverage manufacturers around North America
- Experience working with applications like cheese, dairy products, sauces, dressings, dips, ice cream, or other savory products is a plus.
- Experience with fermentation chemistry
Competencies:
- Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently, plans for additional resources, and sets goals and objectives
- Communication & presentation skills: Communicates efficiently and effectively in front of internal team, colleagues, other departments, sales, and customers
- Innovation - Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work, develops innovative approaches and ideas, and presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention
- Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions, has a can-do attitude, keeps commitments, and completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan
- Team player - Builds strong relationships within the R&D department, colleagues, and internal departments such as sales, quality, regulatory, R&D, and operations
This is a full-time job with benefits. Hours are on site 8am - 5 pm with an hour lunch break. Benefits include health insurance coverage, generous PTO, annual bonus, retirement plan, and more. Join an industry leader in the food ingredient manufacturing industry. If you are qualified and interested, please apply today!
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Science and Research -
Industries
Dairy Product Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, and Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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