Food Scientist

Job Title

Responsibilities:

• Prepare for and represent Client with customers, trade organizations, and trade meetings and conventions including:
• Work with customers to meet their needs regarding flavor, nutritional, and label claims.
• Develop new products that follow regulatory and market trends.
• Maintain relationships with suppliers and utilize their insight to develop new products and troubleshoot existing issues.
• Maintain relationships with industry associations and regulatory trends.
• Prepare all necessary reports as required by customers
• Develop and maintain formulation strategies for existing and new product development including
• Understanding the synergy between/among functional ingredients.
• Understand processing parameters and effects on ingredients.
• Understand scale up process from benchtop to production.
• Utilize consistent formulation calculations/tools.
• Support and complete benchtop samples including
• Support analytical equipment and data collection tools.
• Providing and updating R&D laboratory tools, utensils, supplies, etc
• Work with purchasing department/suppliers to ensure necessary materials/ingredients are in house for benchtop samples
• Request necessary paperwork, logistical information and pricing to determine applicability of material for project needs.
• Organize and retain benchtop and trial samples for further review and shelf life analysis
• Coordinate, manage, monitor, and document plant trials
• Understand the transfer of formulas from benchtop to line trial
• Provide paperwork & instructions to production team to run production line trials
• Collect data, samples, and attend to detail during production line trials and first production runs
• Organize and file collected data for future reference
• Work on current formulations to make any changes as directed by management teams
• Support nutritional and labeling strategy and proof labeling information
• Determine appropriate nutritional database and maintain administrative relationship.
• Work side by side & when necessary, provide assistance as needed to other Food Techs and R&D Application Specialist.
• Create first draft tentative nutritional labels when necessary
• Maintain proofing standards according to the FDA's Code of Federal Regulations. Proof and review nutritional panels for packaging
• Communicate with other department and other R&D team members to work strategically through projects
• Prepare all necessary reports required by department heads
• Communicate with sales team on project timelines and updates
• Utilize change process management project tools to update projects & manage timelines.

Requirements:

• Experience formulating Candy
• 2 years of hands-on experience in Food Science within the food industry, contributing to product development
• Understanding multi-ingredient functionality
• Experience in new product development and formulations
• Self-Motivated
• Excellent computer skills
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work well with others

Additional Responsibilities:

• Assist Food Technologist & R&D Application Specialist on projects as time allows
• Continue additional ingredient education and model current processing systems
• Assist in sourcing and trialing new ingredients as needed
• Set up and operate equipment needed for sample production
• Use ingredients knowledge, processing experience, and project goals to define processing specifications in conjunction with the quality department
• Assist with product issues (processing, formulation, quality, etc.) with the understanding of scientific principles to prove root cause and provide processing or formulation solutions

Education:

• BS degree, or higher, in Food Science

We offer attractive, competitive compensation and benefits including, medical, dental, 401k, short-term disability, AD&D, tuition reimbursement, and more. If you take pride in your work and are committed to personal and professional success, let's talk. Please visit www.zobility.com to learn more.

Zobility is RGBSI's workforce management and staffing division. RGBSI is a multi-national corporation headquartered in Troy, MI with branches throughout the USA, Canada, Germany, and India.