Senior Food Scientist

About This Role

Working with the culinary team to create robust formulas that can be scaled for commercialization is the core of this Senior Food Scientist role. This position ensures new items are successfully built and launched, existing items are accurately documented, and acts as a liaison between various departments. The Senior Food Scientist will drive technical projects focused on new product development, quality improvement, and cost improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide project leadership in the development of new formulations, on proper use of functional ingredients and creation of robust formulations on the bench
• Work on multiple interdisciplinary projects, developing and implementing plans, and coordinating resources to achieve goals
• Design and execute experiments, analyze, and interpret data to make sound technical recommendations for specific projects
• Develop product and process specifications, ensuring training and transfer of specific knowledge to QA and Operations
• Support Commercialization, Operations and QA to resolve ingredient, formula and process issues and manage product/process changes
• Provide technical support to Culinary team on product information and process capability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on implementing new products, new equipment or new processes
• Provide formula and process specifications with Culinary team and translating that to on floor processes and support to ensure smooth rollouts of new products, equipment and/or processes
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the new product development process by actively participating in and encouraging continuous improvement to enhance the win rate, reduce costs, improve new product scale up and expedite speed to market

Requirements

• Degree in Food Science / Food Engineering with a strong functional Baking Science background
• 5-8 years' experience in manufacturing
• Experience with designing and working on new products through concept, prototyping and commercialization within a manufacturing environment
• Strong re-engineering knowledge / experience
• Recipe / Formulation and raw material knowledge / experience
• Strong bench skills when it comes to recipe testing and development
• Team oriented when large sample requests come in
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint, D365 systems
• Self-directed with initiative; responsible for managing own projects and ensuring all timelines are met or exceeded
• Ability/willingness to work off hours or extended amounts of time during product scale ups
• Ability/willingness to travel up to 40% of the time