The R&D group is responsible for developing products from concept to commercialization. The Senior RD Scientist, Meat plays a key role in delivering excellence in product development and production quality execution to ensure flavor, functionality and innovation. In addition to developing products, this role must bring meat expertise to support the product development team with meat ingredient selection, purchasing, and reformulation.
Lead development of new and existing formulas across our frozen food products, while delivering on quality, cost, and commercialization expectations with minimal supervision
Serve as the meat expert for the R&D team, providing meat science knowledge to other technologists/scientists during product development process
Strong knowledge of scientific process and application of experimental design in product development
Partner with meat Purchasing team and external suppliers to reformulate existing ingredients
Agility in delivering exceptional product quality on aggressive timelines. A sense of urgency with high quality output is essential to the success of this position
Strong understanding of ingredient functionality, food/meat science, breading and batters
Ability to translate internal, consumer and customer direction into products that meet the financial, flavor, and functionality goals
Uphold best practices for bench top development, formulations, and lab standards
Strong professional integrity and ethics
Work closely with Regulatory and Labeling & Specifications teams to ensure all regulatory, nutritional, labeling goals are achieved through development
Collaborate with Commercialization and Operation teams to ensure an efficient translation of product formulas to production facilities
20-40% travel required to production facilities and customer presentations
If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Sam Kovacevic at skova@cps4jobs.com.
JO: 171.24KK
Technical Qualifications:
3-8 years of product development and/or commercialization experience with a meat products company
BS Degree in Food Science, Meat Science, Engineering (Food/Process/Chemical) or related field, MS preferred
Frozen food manufacturing experience is a plus
If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Sam Kovacevic at skova@cps4jobs.com.
#171.24KK
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Science
Industries
Food and Beverage Services and Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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