Responsibilities
• Organize daily activities based on business priorities provided by R&D Director.
• Maintain accurate records of R&D materials, equipment and samples stored in all R&D areas according to established practices and procedures.
• Maintain accurate laboratory and project work documentation.
• Maintain clean and organized laboratory work environment including supplies inventory and maintenance, and routine cleaning
• Prepare samples for shipment to customers.
• Formulate and create bench top samples for presentation to inside and outside customers, while maintaining awareness of current plant process capabilities.
• Engage in the troubleshooting and recommendation/ modifications to existing product formula's and/or processes to improve productivity, quality, and/or product cost.
• Support and participate in plant line trials and production start-ups
• Ability to represent The Company when interacting with customers
• Support Sales and Marketing channels with customer presentations. This requires formal "customer facing in a professional manner with a sound working knowledge of company products, processes, and capabilities.
• Responsible for selection and evaluation of raw materials
• Responsible for interpretation of data from experiments/analyses, troubleshooting failures.
• Engage in sourcing and approval of new ingredients, while working with purchasing
• Understand the development of nutritional information for product development
• Responsible for creation of appropriate nutritional and label information
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and recommend projects to implement
• Involved in research of cost saving ideas identified by other team members from all departments
• Responsible for lab trials and plant trial process
• Coordinate with production on trials for ingredient changes, replacement/substitutions, etc., as initiated by suppliers, or customer
• Adhere to GMPs and Health and Safety rules as outlined in employee handbook
• Use all prescribed personal protective equipment
• Knowledge of GMP's and HACCP Service oriented
• Participate in all necessary training is required to successfully perform job responsibilities
Requirements:
• B.S. in Food Science, Food Engineering or related field
• 5-8+ years relevant experience in food preparation/food industry (preferably in the confectionary industry)
• Extensive leadership in one or more of the areas of R&D or QA
• Organizational and leadership skills
• Ability to work with cross functional departments within the organization
• Problem solving, verbal, communication, and listening skills, excellent analytical and decision-making abilities; good presentation skills
• Detail oriented
• Strong time management skills
• Customer Service communication skills
• Work well in team-based environment as well working alone
• Strong computer skills using Microsoft Office Programs
• Must be well motivated, self-starter, dependable
• Responsible --- high sense of ownership
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to formulate, work with accounting to cost out products, and run the whole project from beginning to end.
Location: Greendale, IN
Posted: Sept. 30, 2024, 4:41 p.m.
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