Description
Food Science Specialist
This position is with a leading appliance manufacturer in Springfield Tennessee
Work Hours: 7am-330pm, Monday-Friday
Pay rate range: $25-30/hr
You will enjoy a global team on the first line in the definition of the Taste Consumer Experience on the way to make sustainable eating the preferred choice. As food technologist You will ensure testing of key performance functionality, compliance with technical standards. You will translate input of consumer needs into technical solution. Provide performance improvements and proposals. You will be key in developing new innovations allowing consumers to experience high level meals at home.
Job responsibilities
• Translate consumer needs in to project specification
• Develop new cooking features and or service functionalities.
• Support internal and external events (cooking demo or consumer events)
• Collaborate in the creation of test plan
• Execute testing
• Provide test report, documentation and presentation of results to relevant stakeholder
• Consider required inputs in testing process:
o Company targets on Taste and Sustainability
o National and international use-cases according to internal/external standards and projects scope
o International standards, consumer association standards and internal test manuals
o Feature performance (e.g. steam generator duty cycle, microwave evenness distribution)
• Ensure alignment on test methodologies with other laboratories and relevant test institutes
• Develop new test and evaluation methodologies
• Support Platforms, Product Cares and the other technologies and laboratories in relevant testing (e.g. product lifetime, cost & quality activities, benchmark activities).
• Bring cooking trends and innovation to the home consumer cooking appliances.
• Propose ideas to be potentially patented
• Provide improvement proposals in the Way of Working
• Ensure compliance with work environment and safety regulations.
• Ensure job compliance with regulations and quality audits
• Link global test methodologies approach to local Taste definition
• Approach in a sustainable way both development and way of working
• Create recipes to showcase the product features.
• Collaborate with business partners such as Universities, external laboratories, Taste experts and other chefs
Educational Requirements
• Bachelors in food science is preferred
• Knowledge of Food related standards.
• Knowledge in food transformation related to cooking process
• Testing methodologies (DOE, statistical methodologies) preferred
• 6sigma Green Belt is a plus
Experience and Skill Requirements
• Experience in preparation and cooking of food.
• Food Testing and evaluation.
• Experience in food or appliance industry
• Open minded. You appreciate the privilege of working in an international environment, global team and are respectful of different cultural backgrounds.
• Basic knowledge of electrical laboratory and test execution
• Ability to work in a matrix organization including remote interaction
• Product/food demonstration and public speaking skills.
• Ability to conduct a meeting
• Technical report writing skills.
• Proficient on Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Word
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