Food Scientist
3 weeks ago
Job title: Food Scientist [Dry Mixes]
Location: La Mirada, CA
Company: [Confidential]
Terms: Full-Time
Salary/rate: $90-100K/year, depending on relevant experience and qualifications
Requirements: 10-20% Travel
About our client:
Our client is dedicated to delivering superior products at the best price, on time, and with a smile. Customers always come first, with a focus on exceptional quality and value.
Over the past century, our clients company has grown while maintaining small-town service. They support clients in the beverage, snack food, baking, and pet food industries, ensuring smooth operations with top-quality ingredients sourced worldwide.
Headquartered in Cerritos, CA, with a plant in La Mirada and distribution centers across CA, OR, GA, SC, NC, and IL, the company accommodates precise customer specifications with a commitment to quality and sustainability.
About the role:
The position is responsible for supporting the R&D team’s initiative in leading and executing projects for bakery mixes, breading’s, batters, and drink mixes. The food scientist must have a proven record of completing assigned projects with guidance. The candidate must have a technical background and understanding of analytical methods used in testing physical and chemical characteristics of mixes. The candidate must be self-motivated, detailed-oriented, and a creative thinker with strong interpersonal skills. This position requires work in a cross-functional environment with strong communication and teamwork skills. The role requires reporting under the supervision of the R&D manager.
Responsibilities:
· Manage projects as assigned and ensures they are completed in a timely manner
· Record and organize internal data, written and verbal reports, summaries, and evaluations
· Support the sales team through sample generation and technical assistance
· Assist in plant trials for new products or new processes and provide detailed overview to the team on what was successful and what needs revisions.
· Works cross-functionally with Quality, Production, Purchasing, and Sales to ensure the success of projects from bench-top through commercialization
· Ensure technical knowledge of the industry is continually up to date with an emphasis on the process, products, and ingredients that are used internally and those that may offer a competitive advantage
· Provides technical support to both internal and external customers
· Monitor the collection of data and approve completed R&D technician work deliverables.
· Test and evaluate ingredient and finished good expiration and when possible, advise on shelf-life extension.
· Update batch records and host preproduction scheduling meeting.
· Provide clear direction on what ingredients are allowed as substitutes or replacements.
· Required to approve and place product on hold.
· Required to provide instructions on how to rework product that have been placed on hold.
· Available to perform ad hoc projects that may arise.
Candidate requirements:
· B.S. in food science or related science from an accredited university
· 3-5 years of food industry experience covering a combination of food manufacturing, research and development, commercialization, food safety, and quality management systems
· 1 year of bakery and/or breader/batter experience, including formulating
· Strong planning, organizing, and communication skills
· Solid technical background, ability to understand product formulation techniques, sensory evaluation, processing technology, regulatory compliance, GMP, HACCP, Organic
· Knowledge of Microsoft Office
· Knowledge of ESHA Genesis software is a plus
· Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus
· Ability to taste test all products produced in our plant that may include certain food allergens
· Must be able to travel 5-10% for training, work with new customers, and purchase ingredients from the supermarket when needed to conduct finished good verifications
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