Food Scientist

Description:

General Summary. This position is responsible for preparing, blending, developing, and formulating a solution to project requests made through Sales or as part of internal project directives. This role has the responsibility to liaise between Technical, Sales, Customer Care, Quality, and Operations Teams to ensure customer project needs are met in a timely manner. The application scientist will be required to provide technical support to all directed internal and external inquiries. This role will also require in-person customer visits where advanced technical guidance is required. Application scientist will manage associate scientists and/or lab technicians. All operating procedures, safety regulations, and policies set forth by the company must be followed; in addition, adherence to all local, state, and federal employment laws must be maintained. Will require up to 25% travel to client sites and trade shows.

Follows all operating procedures, safety regulations, and policies and procedures set forth by the company in addition to all local, state and federal employment laws.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop technical solutions to customer-driven and marketing-driven food and beverage projects from bench-top to commercial scale levels. This requires being able to perform in laboratory, pilot plant, and plant processing environments
• Provides technical and application support to customers and builds insights based on development learnings that can be used to accelerate customer development timelines
• Develops and maintains close liaisons with technical stakeholders at key customers by delivering a superior customer service experience and value added solutions in a timely manner.
• Continuously works with manager on improving technical sales support and internal technical customer support processes
• Retains full responsibility to manage and resolve strategic and sensitive issues and completes assigned projects in a timely manner and ensures all technical and customer requirements are successfully met
• In collaboration with marketing department takes ownership of all technical support, prototype development, and product displays needed for trade shows, and other marketing activities.
• Continuously works with manager on improving the overall technical expertise, scientific rigor and processes of the application team.
• Understands the chemistry and functionality of food ingredients in color formulations and remains current with relevant food and beverage industry trends. Trains internal and external customers as needed on all technical aspects of businesses.
• Provides internal support to high-priority projects and necessary technical training program updates
• Works closely with Production and Quality/Regulatory Departments to review, recommend and implement necessary changes to new and existing products through the manufacturing and QA/QC process as needed
• Approves specifications of raw material and packing material used for applications manufactured by the company
• Develops testing methods for all applications manufactured by the company
• Maintains a laboratory notebook and all required documentation for project work
• Completes monthly reporting, and reports all key project metrics, as required
• Ensures compliance with the regulations governing colors manufactured or distributed by the company in assigned regions
• Must be able to read, follow, and complete all Sample Manufacturing Log sheets
• Adheres to all safety and quality requirements, offers suggestions to enhance site safety and reports all incidents/accidents to the management immediately
• Required to follow all SOPs, GLPs, and GMPs where needed
• Required to perform daily cleaning tasks to ensure a sanitary work area
• Strives to improve processes and reduce the overall cost
  
  

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or related area from a four-year college or university; and five (5) to seven (7) years related (beverage, snacks, meat preferred) experience or training
• Experience with color/ingredient applications, customer presentations, program/system planning, statistical reporting/analysis and cost/benefit analysis preferred.
• In-depth understanding and practical experience with production/manufacturing preferred.
• Ability to apply commonsense to solve problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exits.
• Ability to work on cross-functional projects alone and as part of a team is critical.
• Ability to perform at high level in continuously changing work pace is essential.
• Work requires excellent written, verbal and group presentation communication skills.
  
  

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

• Hiring diverse talent
• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people
  
  

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.