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Food
Technologist - Illinois Location: Corporate Position Summary: Work with the new
product development team to develop new, innovative pizza, sandwich and dough
enrobed products. Partner with quality assurance, sales, engineering,
operations and purchasing to establish ingredients, technical information,
formulations and operations/manufacturing requirements to produce new
products from development through commercialization. Key Responsibilities: · Assist in development of
bench-top product prototypes based on criteria provided by executive chef and
the new product development team. · Coordinate customer
product presentations and internal cuttings. · Follow-through on
various sample refinements based on sales, marketing and customer feedback. · Manage resources to
improve the quality and speed of new product development. · Assist with coordination
of sourcing raw materials for bench-top samples and initial plant runs. · Oversee initial
production runs of new products and testing runs. · Participate in project
roll-out meetings. · Research ingredient
cost, manufacturing cost and quality issues to ensure prototype products have
a high probability of meeting criteria upon scale-up. · Work with R&D,
executive chef, QA, production and purchasing to ensure all information is
received, understood and within the parameters of company and regulatory
specifications. Qualifications: · Bachelor's degree in
Food Science, Food Technology or related area. · 6-8 years in food
product development. · Prior experience with
pizza-related product formulation highly preferred. · Knowledge of current
food industry trends including food and packaging processing methods and
techniques. · Proficiency in the use
of MS Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other software
specific to function. · Ability to effectively
use typical lab and kitchen equipment. |
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