Pet Food Technology Specialist

7 days ago


Orrville, Ohio, United States The J.M. Smucker Co. Full time

Opportunity Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Research and Development Scientist to join our team at The J.M. Smucker Co. as a Process Engineer - Innovation. This role will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and implementing proprietary process technologies and equipment for our innovation roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of robust processes to deliver finished product attributes, guardrails, and metrics.
  • Design, plan, coordinate, and execute experiments from bench-top through manufacturing scale, including creating test plans, process flow diagrams, designing equipment and tooling, data analysis, and interpretation.
  • Lead a technical and cross-functional team to successfully commission and launch new innovation/renovation projects at JMS and/or Co-packer manufacturing facilities.
  • Apply fundamental engineering and extrusion principles in combination with a creative mindset and critical thinking to develop novel process solutions.
  • Review and summarize experimental results and provide go-forward recommendations to the pet leadership team.
  • Communicate project updates with credibility to internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in Research and Development or a technical role.
  • Ability to travel up to 30% of schedule to manufacturing and vendor locations.
  • Ability to execute designed experiments (DOE) and generate relevant product and process data to identify and mitigate process development and scale-up risks.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced degree (Masters/PhD) and Chemical/Food Engineering.
  • Experience with extrusion.
  • Experience with Food (Pet Food/Snacks, Human Food/Snacks) extrusion.
  • Experience with other food processing technologies (i.e. thermal processing, baking, molding, forming, etc.).
  • Experience with statistical software (JMP, Minitab, etc.).
  • Strong personal leadership and ability to work autonomously to plan, implement, monitor, and deliver objectives.
  • Ability to collaborate and work across multi-functional boundaries in a dynamic project environment.

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