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Senior Food
Technologist – Pittsburgh, PA
Req Number: hein-00003225
Location(s): Pittsburgh PA
This position will be responisble for an array of product development
activities within the Foodservice Frozen Soups team.
PURPOSE:
With minimum supervision, develop formulations, create and modify factory
processes in the areas of new product development, cost reduction and
quality improvement.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
'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.
Activities performed daily include:
'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.
KNOWLEDGE
'Production & Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production
processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the
effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
'Food Production: Knowledge of techniques for planting, growing and
harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including
storage/handling techniques.
'Sales & Marketing: Limited knowledge of principles and methods for
promoting and selling products. This includes marketing strategy and
tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control
systems.
'Knowledge of current consumer goods, trends, and technologies.
SKILLS
'Critical thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and
weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to
problems.
'Time Management: Having the ability to manage and monitor a number of
projects to completion.
'Judgment & Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and
benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
'Some demonstrated skills in strategic thinking, consumer targeting,
concept development and identifying consumer needs and insights.
COMPENTENCIES
'Communication: The ability to communicate information and ideas in
speaking so others will understand.
'Inductive reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form
general rules or conclusions (includes a relationship among seemingly
unrelated events).
'Problem sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is
likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only
recognizing there is a problem.
'Deductive reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific
problems to produce answers that make sense.
'Self starter: The ability to handle multiple projects at one time.
EXPERIENCE:
'Working knowledge of product development and familiarity with quality
assurance procedures.
'B.S. in Food Science or related field required. M. S. or PhD is preferred.
'Minimum of 5-8 years of industry experience necessary.
'20 ' 25% travel required.
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