Senior Scientist
Date: Jan 25, 2023
Location: Hilbert, United States
Company: Ornua Co-operative Limited
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Food, Dairy, or related scientific field with at least 5 years of industrial experience or advanced degree (MS/PhD) in closely related scientific field with at least 3 years of experience and/OR strong knowledge of the science of dairy ingredients and non-dairy ingredients and their quality, functionality and interactions within cheese matrix.
- Must have valid driver’s license with flexibility to travel and visit customers up to 10-15% of the time
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. as needed
Other Preferred Qualifications:
- Experienced in developing standardized/non-standardized processed cheese or imitation cheese
- Experience working in application lab, pilot plant systems and with laboratory instrumentation.
- Experience working in Food industry - B2B product development, formulation, and commercialization of cheese/dairy/food products
- Familiarity with FDA Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) cheese standards, and dairy products guidelines, definitions, nutritional and labeling claims.
- Experience or familiarity working with starch systems, protein matrices and/or plant-based cheese
- Lean Six Sigma experience/certification or likewise
- Culinary experience designing custom applications with custom cheese ingredients will be a plus
- Working knowledge of sensory science and texture analysis techniques
Principal Duties:
- Provides strong expertise and technical leadership on new product development, functionality in end products, and commercializing them in collaboration within R&D/Innovation, and cross-collaboration with commercial (sales), procurement, finance, and quality assurance departments.
- Conducts optimization projects based on sound understanding and knowledge of OINA capabilities
- Mentors and upskill others on technical leadership, project management, material risk assessment
- Initiates and drives projects, focusing on ROI, efficiency to address short-term and long-term business needs & support other projects as needed
- Develops and commercializes high quality, innovative, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable cheese solutions
- Contributes to determine new approaches within existing business and to identify new business opportunities
- Conducts pilot and production plant experiments to test and develop new products and processes.
- As necessary, conducts laboratory evaluations on composition and functionality of products and ingredients
- Investigates new technologies for producing safe, high quality food products
- Participates in on-going sensory/organoleptic analyses and shelf life studies of Ornua products as required
- Uses planning and organization, time management, and project management skills to deliver results
- Establishes control limits for production items and manages process/formulation changes.
Competencies:
- Customer Focus – Advocates for the customer, balances customer and business needs, and spots opportunities for growth
- Communicative – Applies advanced communication skills, considering impact on the audience and desired outcomes
- Curiosity – Creates an environment for innovative thinking; rewards and recognizes creative thinking and continuous improvement.
- Forward looking – Leads other through change and contributes to competitive challenges and functional strategic plans.
Travel requirements:
- Up to 15% travel to other OINA locations, customer sites and industry events
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