- Blackfoot, Idaho, United States
- 3+ years
Food Scientist to execute product development projects from concept through commercialization and coordinate with cross-functional partners to ensure project success through a stage gate project management process.
Compensation
Competitive Compensation: Base salary is dependent on the candidate's experience level and skill set. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position participates in an annual incentive plan.
Responsibilities
- Develop new products beginning at the concept phase through successful commercialization by designing and leading bench trials, supporting pilot plant and scale up of manufacturing plant trials, creating analytical reports, and organizing tasting sessions with RDQA team and/or Marketing.
- Collaborate with internal cross-functional partners and external suppliers to identify and troubleshoot technical product development hurdles.
- Develop, organize, and document product shelf-life studies and product cutting sessions. Analyze results to draw conclusions and communicate clear recommendations for next steps.
- Support the creation, routing, and management of ingredient, formula, and finished good specifications.
- Proactively identify ideas and research on new functional ingredients and technologies that can be used to drive continuous improvement. Apply scientific principles and foundational product development concepts to projects. Leverage Lean principles to complete Root Cause Analyses, analyze statistical data, and identify trends that inform data-driven decision ownership.