Food Scientist
hace 4 días
Ceres
Food Scientist The Food Scientist plays a critical role in developing, optimizing, and commercializing ingredient solutions that meet customer needs and manufacturing realities. This role is responsible for driving formulation excellence, supporting scale-up from bench to production, and ensuring products perform consistently, efficiently, and safely. The focus of the Food Scientist is practical problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and translating food science into commercially viable, manufacturable solutions. Responsibilities • Develop, optimize, and reformulate ingredient solutions including powders, pastes, butters, inclusions, and blends, • Lead formulation scale-up from bench to pilot to commercial production, • Troubleshoot formulation and processing challenges related to texture, viscosity, stability, oxidation, color, flavor, and shelf-life, • Partner with Operations to adapt formulations to equipment capabilities, line constraints, yields, and sanitation requirements, • Support and participate in plant trials, first production runs, and continuous improvement efforts, • Collaborate with Sales and customers to solve application challenges and support customer trials and approvals, • Clearly communicate technical tradeoffs and recommendations to customers and internal stakeholders, • Prepare and maintain technical documentation including specifications, technical data sheets, and sample notes, • Support cost-in-use optimization while maintaining product performance, quality, and clean-label objectives, • Maintain working knowledge of food safety, regulatory, labeling, and allergen requirements, • Support customer audits, specification development, and documentation requests, • Demonstrate ownership of projects from concept through commercialization and post-launch support What Will You Need • B.S. or M.S. in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field, • 5-7+ years of hands-on experience in ingredient manufacturing and/or food formulation, • Proven formulation experience with powders, pastes, butters, inclusions, or blends, • Customer-facing experience supporting technical discussions and trials, • Working knowledge of food safety, regulatory, and allergen requirements, • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams), • Able to read, write, and speak English fluently What Will Put You Ahead • Clean-Label reformulation experience and ability to optimize formulations for cost, functionality, and manufacturing practicality, • Experience supporting large CPG customers, customer trials, and product approvals, • Exposure to CAPEX-driven formulation changes or process improvements, • Bilingual (Spanish/English) speaking and communication skills a strong plus