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Senior
Food Technologist – Warrendale, PA
Req Number:hein-00004443
Location(s):WarrendalePA
Heinz
North America is seeking a Senior Food Technologist who with minimum
supervision, will develop formulations, create and modify factory processes
in the areas of new product development, cost reduction and quality
improvement.
Who will be successful in this role? An individual who will.
' Provide pertinent information to supervisors, co-workers, and
subordinates.
' Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution and
solve problems.
' Handle complaints, settle disputes, resolve conflicts, and negotiate with
others.
' Apply food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package,
preserve, store, and distribute foods.
' Coordinate and perform trials in Pilot Plant and factory to insure
compliance to approved formulas.
' Keep technically informed through suppliers and technical literature.
' Use chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and other sciences to study the
principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods.
' Analyze food content to determine levels of vitamins, fat, sugar, and
protein.
' Discover new food sources.
' Research ways to make processed foods safe, palatable, and healthful.
' Formulate new products for flavor, color,
nutritional content, and adherence to government, company policy, and
industry standards.
' Check raw ingredients for acceptability for
processing, and finished products for safety, quality, and nutritional
value.
' Confer and coordinate with cross-functional partners such as food
technologists, engineers, plant operators, sensory experts, packaging,
marketing, and sales in order to drive the product development process.
' Evaluate food processing and storage operations,
assist in the development of quality assurance programs for such
operations.
' Study methods to improve aspects of food such as
chemical composition, flavor, color, nutritional value, and convenience.
' Develop food standards and specifications,
safety and sanitary regulations.
' Develop specific goals and plans to prioritize,
organize, and accomplish your work and the work of others.
' Demonstrate products to internal and external clients.
' Solve technical problems through search of
scientific literature or other sources of technical information.
' Investigates ingredient and process innovations through suppliers and
technical literature.
The
following skills and experience are required to be considered for this
position:
' B.S. in Food Science or related field. M. S. or PhD is preferred.
' 5+ years experience in product development and
familiarity with quality assurance procedures in the food industry.
' 30% travel required.
Bring Us Your Appetite For Success
Heinz is a global powerhouse with a long history of success. We offer an
environment of strength, stability and exceptionally varied opportunity.
Under our impressive portfolio of brands, we lead the industry in quality,
value, consumer loyalty, and consumer expectations. Heinz was recently
ranked #1 in overall Customer Satisfaction by the American Customer
Satisfaction Index against 225 companies in 47 industries. We are able to
achieve these great milestones through great people - our talent is
entrepreneurial, empowered and always collaborative with a culture that
allows each person to have an impact every day. Your career with us is
limited only by your drive, ambition and imagination and we're committed to
maximizing the talents of those who join us. We invite you to learn more
about this career opportunity and determine if you're ready to join Heinz!
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