About This Role
This Senior Food Scientist role focuses on protein-based products, leading development projects from complex formula creation to processing procedures and specifications. The position involves applying scientific principles to food processing, ensuring product quality and safety, and providing technical support across various departments. It suits a food scientist with a strong background in research and development, particularly with protein products.
Responsibilities
- Form and lead product development projects by developing complex formulas, processing procedures, and specifications for new products, product enhancements, and cost reductions to meet project parameters and business unit strategies
- Provide advanced technical support to marketing, sales, operations, and external customers
- Use chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and other sciences to study the principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods
- Analyze food content
- Discover new food sources
- Research ways to make processed foods safe, palatable, and healthful
- Apply food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package, preserve, store, and distribute food
- Provide advanced technical solutions to production issues as it relates to ingredients, formulas, processing procedures, and specifications to ensure continuous production of existing products and maintain product quality and safety
- Develop experimental formulas, processing procedures, and specifications for raw ingredients, subassemblies, and finished products for simple new product, product improvement, and cost reduction that meet project parameters of established pricing, marketing goals, food regulations, and operation feasibility
- Organize and manage complex test runs to validate or modify experimental formulas and processing procedures to develop final specifications and ensure reproducibility for the production of finished products and subassemblies
- Establish team and work with members to ensure successful start-ups of new products, product improvements, cost reductions, and ingredients, formula, specification, or process changes
- Evaluate ingredients and processing techniques to identify and commercialize product improvement and cost reduction opportunities
- Evaluate, confirm acceptability, and create/update specifications and implement proposed ingredients or process for supplier optimization
- Document all work according to established procedures and guidelines providing timely and effective oral and written communication
- Prepare various project reports to project personnel and project leader to ensure complete communication of project status, progress, issues, solutions, timeline, and accountability
- Support innovation in the development of new ideas, new products or new product platforms through ideation sessions and bench top experimentation, along with the ability to effectively communicate the concept
- Utilize technical curiosity and apply critical thinking across projects
- Other duties, as assigned
Requirements
- Proof of legal authority to work in the U.S.
- Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Food Science, Dairy Science, Foods & Nutrition Studies, Biological Sciences, Food Science and Technology or a closely related field, and at least two years of experience as a Food Scientist, Food Technologist, Food Technologist I or II, or other similar food science position at a food manufacturer and distributor performing qualitative and quantitative food research, involving plant-based meat analogues, chicken or similar protein, including concept development and commercialization
- OR a bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Food Science, Dairy Science, Foods & Nutrition Studies, Biological Sciences, Food Science and Technology or a closely related field, and at least five years of experience as a Food Scientist, Food Technologist, Food Technologist I or II, or other similar food science position at a food manufacturer and distributor performing qualitative and quantitative food research, involving plant-based meat analogues, chicken or similar protein, including concept development and commercialization
Benefits
- Standard employee benefits
Important Details
- Work format: Work from home one day a week is permitted but not required
About the Company
Schwan’s Shared Services, LLC is a subsidiary of Schwan’s Company.
