Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Food Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry, or Food Science.
• A minimum of 3 years' experience.

Responsibilities:

• Develop plan of action based on request form received from NPD.
• Liaise with Sales Representatives and NPD regarding relevant requirements potentially omitted by clients.
• Create rough outline of recipe.
• Check that all required parts and ingredients are in stock.
• Liaise with Product Applications Manager for ingredient orders.
• Assemble machine(s) to be used in testing.
• Physically make product mix.
• Run product mix on relevant machine(s).
• Communicate outcome of trial to NPD/Product Applications Manager, etc.
• Report any concerns to Product Applications Manager.
• Compile a detailed product report on the trials that were done.
• Maintain database of project statuses and previous product mixes.
• Evaluate meat ingredients (i.e., particle size, binding, water, distribution between meat particles, etc).