Sr. Scientist

The R&D Group is responsible for developing products from concept to commercialization.  The Senior Food Technologist / Scientist plays a key role in delivering excellence in product development and production quality execution to ensure flavor, functionality and innovation.

Essential Functions:

• 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
• 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:  206.24KK
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Requirements:

• 3-8 years of product development and/or commercialization experience
• 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.

JO:  206.24KK
#LI-SK3