Job Title: R&D Site Scientist
Location: Bloomsburg, PA
Overview:
Join a leading Food & Beverage company as an R&D Site Scientist! We’re looking for a passionate, skilled, and collaborative individual to enhance our dynamic team. If you have experience in food and beverage R&D, and thrive in providing leadership and resources to foster a high-performing work environment, we want to hear from you! This is your opportunity to be part of a company that is continually evolving and take your career to new heights.
Position Summary:
As the R&D Site Scientist, you will play a crucial role in delivering technical support to enhance ingredient and product performance, safety, quality, yield, and efficiency. You will represent our Bloomsburg, PA pet food manufacturing site, collaborating on product and process modifications, new product development, and ingredient and equipment innovations. You will also support and uphold food safety and quality standards through established Quality and Food Safety programs.
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Food Science, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in food manufacturing, product development, or process engineering.
- Preferred experience in extrusion and/or retort processes.
- Background in pet food or animal feed is advantageous.
- Proven leadership and strong negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
- Familiarity with manufacturing principles and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a team-oriented environment across various functional groups.
- Experience in mentoring and influencing others to achieve results.
- Capacity to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced setting, meeting deadlines and communicating progress effectively.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Commitment to maintaining a safe and respectful workplace, with a strong focus on safety and quality.
Responsibilities:
- Support technical initiatives to assess and enhance processes and formulations in pet food manufacturing, aiming to boost production rates and efficiency while ensuring safe manufacturing practices.
- Coordinate plant trials for the commercialization of new products and corporate cost-saving initiatives, evaluating new ingredients, formulas, and processing parameters.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance between operations and R&D for new product/process development.
- Work within formulation and specification systems, focusing on recipe creation, ingredient substitutions, cost optimization, and plant trial requests.
- Collect and analyze data from suppliers, plant operations, customers, and consumers to inform decision-making.
- Facilitate local change control processes and tracking.
- Oversee the evaluation of new crops, ingredients, equipment, or packaging materials.
- Update and maintain plant-level analyses to support daily manufacturing operations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on core production processes, ingredients, and products at the Bloomsburg site, offering technical expertise to resources and operating technicians.
- Share best practices across sites to enhance product, process, and ingredient efficiencies.
- Travel up to 25% as required.
If you’re ready to contribute to an innovative team and make a significant impact in the Food & Beverage industry, apply today!