Sr. Scientist / Principal Scientist - Functional Meat Ingredients

Kansas City, KS

Posted: 06/18/2026 Industry: Laboratory - Food & Beverage Job Number: 6.17.26KO Pay Rate: 180,000 + 10% Bonus Remote Friendly: On-Site Experience:

Job Description

Sr. Scientist / Principal Scientist – Functional Meat Ingredients

The Senior Scientist / Principal Scientist exhibits independent application and project planning ability, seamlessly integrating creativity, innovation, and presentation skills to provide best in class to support to GLOBAL CLIENT COMPANY clients.  The Senior Scientist – Meat / Principal Scientist clearly displays strong finished product knowledge with excellent problem-solving abilities.  In this role, you will work with established internal and external customer networks to share and leverage products and techniques in the associated category.  They act as a team leader and collaborator to contribute to the regional and global technical strategic projects and innovation programs, working independently on tasks with responsibility for high value projects.

Responsibilities

The essential functions of this position include but are not limited to the following:

  • Prioritize and develop work-plans to manage work for total project of moderate scope. Provide technical guidance on unusual or complex problems.
  • Develop and conduct experiments for a variety of projects and activities to be carried out individually or by others.
  • Create value-added solutions for the meat industry leveraging GLOBAL CLIENT COMPANY portfolio and build strong technical credibility with customers.
  • Experience with meat manufacturing process and industry best practices.
  • Keep up-to-date on trends, new technical developments and competitor’s activities by monitoring applications for processing systems and ingredients.
  • Provide technical services to Customers, Sales and Divisions as needed (plant trials, troubleshooting, and training).
  • Implement and adhere to GLOBAL CLIENT COMPANY core values and safety initiatives.
  • May develop or assist with development of new product and application literature, including technical reports, invention disclosures and patents.
  • Maintain appropriate documentation for experiments, GMPs, FSMA, Bioterrorism and others as required.

Salary

Up to $180K + 10% Bonus

Benefits Available

Job Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years working experience in industrial food, ingredient, or flavor industry specifically from the meat industry; prefers someone from a competitive / supplier for functional ingredients but will consider a further meat manufacturer if they bring the experience working and researching functional ingredients. A background from meat preservation technology is a big plus.
  • Strong ability to communicate and advise customers in this space and across cross-functional team roles.
  • Preferred Master’s Degree and/or PhD in related area.
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills are necessary, with demonstrated leadership skills.

Working Conditions:

  • This position is considered a Team Lead and requires working in the lab/pilot plant for 5 days/week.
  • May require outside travel up to 30% of the time.

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Kristine O’Sullivan at kosullivan@cps4jobs.com.

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Meet Your Recruiter

Kristine O'Sullivan
Sr. Partner

The Food and Beverage Division specializes in the placement of technical professionals in the food and beverage industry from entry level to executive level candidates. I have a talented group of recruiters who specifically source Technical Sales Professionals, Scientists, Regulatory Affairs, Scientific Affairs, Executive Technical professionals, Quality Assurance, Product Development, Technical Service, Nutrition, Analytical and Corporate Chefs. We work on both a contingent basis for professional level searches and retained search for executive level searches. CPS, Inc. has been in the talent recruitment business for 40+ years and we recruit nationwide.

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