Food Scientist

4 weeks ago

South Holland, Illinois, United States CBQ, LLC Full time
About Us

Carl Buddig and Company is a legacy in the meat manufacturing industry with a rich heritage spanning over 80 years. Our commitment to quality, innovation, and community has driven our growth and success.

We pride ourselves on fostering an awesome culture where teamwork and innovation are at the core of everything we do. Our connection to the communities we serve goes beyond business, and we actively support numerous charitable initiatives and organizations.

We are seeking a Food Scientist to join our team and drive innovation, renovation, and optimization of our retail and food service smoked meats business. As a key member of our cross-functional team, you will work closely with sales and marketing teams to develop new concepts and see them through the NPD process.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage multiple ongoing projects concurrently in an organized manner.
  • Taking ownership and accountability for technical projects, executing small- and large-scale plant tests while documenting data and analyzing results.

Innovation:

  • Work directly with the sales and marketing teams on new concept development and seeing through the project all the way through the NPD process.
  • Identify culinary trends that can be incorporated into new products with new and existing capabilities.

Renovation:

  • Work cross functionally with plant operations and FSQA to enhance existing portfolio items.
  • Developing new SKUs while using established formulas and processing methods as a foundation.

Optimization:

Work directly with operation and finance to identify optimization opportunities pertaining to formulation, raw processing, cooking programs, and packaging processes that drive revenue and margin growth.

Qualifications:

  • Must demonstrate a culinary and technical competence – background in Food Science, Meat Science, Culinary Science, Process Engineering, and/or related field.
  • Strong Product development and commercialization experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in food product development. Experience in meat and/or BBQ product development is a plus but not required.
  • Understanding of ingredient functionality and interrelationship of formula and process.
  • Can manage multiple tasks concurrently with the ability to prioritize the work.
  • Excellent communication, influencing, prioritization, presentation, and project management skills.
  • Strong critical thinking skills and ability to make connections to bigger company goals when developing.
  • Ability to coach and train staff in new processes.

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