Food Scientist

Company Description

We help Procurement and Recruiting departments faced with the challenge of filling multiple IT-related openings for either long-term employment, or short-term projects. They need to find reliable candidates, with the right expertise, quickly and at the right cost to enable their company to remain competitive, and to increase profit and efficiency.

Stefanini provides the IT contract resources you need to implement crucial projects, handle short-term assignments, or fulfill long-term placements. Our IT staffing services free you from the challenges of finding, recruiting, training and retaining high-quality professional staff, and allow you to focus on managing your business growth.

We provide the ongoing skill development to ensure that professionals placed at your site are trained in leading technologies to support your information technology hardware, software, and network infrastructure. Augment your staff for short or long-term engagements, or for specialized expertise on specific projects.

We have more than 25 years of staffing industry knowledge and can provide you with superior

candidates to match your technical and professional needs.

Job Description

Performs quality testing, research and development of new and/or existing products. Modification of standard products, regulatory supervision of products and data analysis generally in the food, beverage, flavors, and chemical industries. May develop or modify internal SOPs. Responsible for qualifying multiple flavors/ingredients from several suppliers that impact finished goods in the Cheese & Dairy, Enhancers, or M&D BU within a 12 month timeframe. Job complexity involves heavy collaboration with suppliers to qualify flavors/ingredients in products and synergizing with multiple BUs that share the same flavor. 

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently under the direction of senior Scientists/Engineers leveraging strong problem solving skills. 

• Conduct bench top and pilot plant product development. 

• Updates to supplier specifications and general spec maintenance 

• Plan and execute experiments, interpret and report results, and recommend next steps. 

• Support processing initiatives at the plant. 

• Evaluate and utilize technical information from external and internal sources to support productivity initiatives 

• Conduct plant trials to achieve above 

• Direct interface w/ Business, Operations and Quality partners on initiatives from defining project goals through commercialization. 

• Develop and Execute commercialization plans 

• Works well in a team and is able to collaborate with Manager and others in the organization 

experience with Meridian a big plus ,Matrix, Infinity Experience would be great Food Background

Additional Information

Requirements:

• A Food Science degree or Masters with 6-10 years’ experience.

• Product development experience 

• Degree in Food Science preferred

• BU experience a big plus with Multiple BU’s