About This Role
Applying scientific methods, ingredients knowledge, product formulation, and food processing expertise to develop and commercialize new and improved food products and processes is at the heart of this Food Scientist role. The position also leads and executes cook validations to ensure food safety and consistent quality across various products and production lines.
Responsibilities
- Work with and strongly influence marketing, insights, sales, culinary, FSQA, operations, and purchasing departments
- Coordinate with suppliers of ingredients
- Ensure smooth start-up for new product production processes
- Modify or optimize existing products
- Develop specifications for product production labeling
- Compile cost analysis information
- Work multiple development and optimization projects of moderate complexity, independently, from concept through commercialization with guidance from manager
- Plan, execute experiments, analyze data, and report results
- Execute the development process with activities that include bench top development, pilot plant testing, and scale-up production at a federally inspected research facility and final commercialization at full scale production facility
- Help team to identify innovation that is treated as IP that can give Tyson a competitive edge in the industry
- Analyze data to build product specifications that are process capable
- Present technical data or concepts to laypersons on their level of understanding
- Ensure costing structure meets the financial expectations of projects
- Work on cross functional teams across the organization for project completion that will ultimately help achieve our growth and EBIT strategies
- Travel to plant production facilities
- Take on and complete special projects as needed
- Develop culinary samples/prototypes of new products
- Develop product production labels
- Work with process development to develop process flow charts for engineering
- Ability and initiative to grow within the organization and develop a personal development plan with your manager
Requirements
- Good computer skills with ability to fully utilize MS Office products and Tyson systems (or like systems)
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Ability to effectively communicate with cross functional business partners
- Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong project management skills
- Strong numerical skills
- Understanding of product formulation, food processing, and the Research and Development process
