Senior R&D Scientist - LS Solutions
Greendale, IN 47025
About the Job
Title: Senior R&D Scientist
Duration: 04 Months Contract
Location: Greendale, IN 47025
Description:
I. Position Overview:
This position will initiate, coordinate, and implement new product initiatives on new and existing products. This position will work with procurement, quality assurance, production, marketing, as well as suppliers and customers to effectively develop products. This position will create product formulation, scale-up, labeling, select raw materials, and more. This position is responsible all documentation from ideation to product launch and product maintenance.
II. Specific Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Organize daily activities based on business priorities provided by R&D Director.
Maintain accurate records of R&D materials, equipment and samples stored in all R&D areas according to established practices and procedures.
Maintain accurate laboratory and project work documentation.
Maintain clean and organized laboratory work environment including supplies inventory and maintenance, and routine cleaning
-Prepare samples for shipment to customers.
-Formulate and create bench top samples for presentation to inside and outside customers, while maintaining awareness of current plant process capabilities.
-Engage in the troubleshooting and recommendation/ modifications to existing product formula's and/or processes to improve productivity, quality, and/or product cost.
-Support and participate in plant line trials and production start-ups
-Ability to represent The Company when interacting with customers
-Support Sales and Marketing channels with customer presentations. This requires formal "customer facing" in a professional manner with a sound working knowledge of company products, processes, and capabilities.
-Responsible for selection and evaluation of raw materials
-Responsible for interpretation of data from experiments/analyses, troubleshooting failures.
-Engage in sourcing and approval of new ingredients, while working with purchasing
-Understand the development of nutritional information for product development
-Responsible for creation of appropriate nutritional and label information
-Identify opportunities for cost savings and recommend projects to implement
-Involved in research of cost saving ideas identified by other team members from all departments
-Responsible for lab trials and plant trial process
-Coordinate with production on trials for ingredient changes, replacement/substitutions, etc., as initiated by suppliers, or customer
-Adhere to GMPs and Health and Safety rules as outlined in employee handbook
-Use all prescribed personal protective equipment
-Knowledge of GMP's and HACCP Service oriented
-Participate in all necessary training is required to successfully perform job responsibilities.
III. Essential Skills and Experience:
Education or Equivalent: (Minimum required to perform job)
-B.S. in Food Science, Food Engineering or related field
-5-8+ years relevant experience in food preparation/food industry (preferably in the confectionary industry)
Knowledge/Skills Requirements: (List unique knowledge skills, or problem-solving requirements)
-Extensive leadership in one or more of the areas of R&D or QA
-Organizational and leadership skills
-Ability to work with cross functional departments within the organization
-Problem solving, verbal, communication, and listening skills, excellent analytical and decision-making abilities; good presentation skills
-Detail oriented
-Strong time management skills
-Customer Service communication skills
-Work well in team-based environment as well working alone
-Strong computer skills using Microsoft Office Programs
-Must be well motivated, self-starter, dependable
-Responsible --- high sense of ownership
-Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
-Ability to formulate, work with accounting to cost out products, and run the whole project from beginning to end.
Employment Type: Contractor
Salary: $ 45.00 Per Hour
Duration: 04 Months Contract
Location: Greendale, IN 47025
Description:
I. Position Overview:
This position will initiate, coordinate, and implement new product initiatives on new and existing products. This position will work with procurement, quality assurance, production, marketing, as well as suppliers and customers to effectively develop products. This position will create product formulation, scale-up, labeling, select raw materials, and more. This position is responsible all documentation from ideation to product launch and product maintenance.
II. Specific Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Organize daily activities based on business priorities provided by R&D Director.
Maintain accurate records of R&D materials, equipment and samples stored in all R&D areas according to established practices and procedures.
Maintain accurate laboratory and project work documentation.
Maintain clean and organized laboratory work environment including supplies inventory and maintenance, and routine cleaning
-Prepare samples for shipment to customers.
-Formulate and create bench top samples for presentation to inside and outside customers, while maintaining awareness of current plant process capabilities.
-Engage in the troubleshooting and recommendation/ modifications to existing product formula's and/or processes to improve productivity, quality, and/or product cost.
-Support and participate in plant line trials and production start-ups
-Ability to represent The Company when interacting with customers
-Support Sales and Marketing channels with customer presentations. This requires formal "customer facing" in a professional manner with a sound working knowledge of company products, processes, and capabilities.
-Responsible for selection and evaluation of raw materials
-Responsible for interpretation of data from experiments/analyses, troubleshooting failures.
-Engage in sourcing and approval of new ingredients, while working with purchasing
-Understand the development of nutritional information for product development
-Responsible for creation of appropriate nutritional and label information
-Identify opportunities for cost savings and recommend projects to implement
-Involved in research of cost saving ideas identified by other team members from all departments
-Responsible for lab trials and plant trial process
-Coordinate with production on trials for ingredient changes, replacement/substitutions, etc., as initiated by suppliers, or customer
-Adhere to GMPs and Health and Safety rules as outlined in employee handbook
-Use all prescribed personal protective equipment
-Knowledge of GMP's and HACCP Service oriented
-Participate in all necessary training is required to successfully perform job responsibilities.
III. Essential Skills and Experience:
Education or Equivalent: (Minimum required to perform job)
-B.S. in Food Science, Food Engineering or related field
-5-8+ years relevant experience in food preparation/food industry (preferably in the confectionary industry)
Knowledge/Skills Requirements: (List unique knowledge skills, or problem-solving requirements)
-Extensive leadership in one or more of the areas of R&D or QA
-Organizational and leadership skills
-Ability to work with cross functional departments within the organization
-Problem solving, verbal, communication, and listening skills, excellent analytical and decision-making abilities; good presentation skills
-Detail oriented
-Strong time management skills
-Customer Service communication skills
-Work well in team-based environment as well working alone
-Strong computer skills using Microsoft Office Programs
-Must be well motivated, self-starter, dependable
-Responsible --- high sense of ownership
-Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
-Ability to formulate, work with accounting to cost out products, and run the whole project from beginning to end.
Employment Type: Contractor
Salary: $ 45.00 Per Hour
Source : LS Solutions