Our client, an an incredible food manufacturer with outstanding company culture, is looking for a professional to implement product formulations, conduct product trials, and ensure adherence to quality standards.
As the Process Technologist, you will be directly responsible for process development, standardization, and improvements in processing, as well as be responsible for promoting the professional competence of the cross functional team through daily activities, training, and support.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement product formulations, conduct product trials, and ensure adherence to quality standards.
- Collect and analyze operational data and trends to develop improvement plans for process, formulas, and equipment.
- Developing, evaluating, implementing, and maintaining the Thermal Processing programs to ensure the safety and quality of food products.
- Collaborate with customers and regulatory personnel during visits, inspections, and audits.
- Support deviation analyses and recommend product dispositions as needed.
- Serve as subject matter expert and provide technical assistance to optimize thermal processes and resolve issues.
- Ability to investigate, troubleshoot, and design solutions to problems in equipment hardware, software, and processes.
- Ability to understand, monitor, and test, equipment, and systems.
- Support production continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive continuous process improvement efforts by identification and reduction of process inefficiencies within the Engineering, R&D, and operations.
- Comply with documentation standards, maintenance plans, and system specifications per SQF requirements.
- Follows all Company Safety policies and procedures.
- Comply with established production processes per SQF requirements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in food engineering, chemical engineering, food processing, food chemistry, food science, or related discipline
- Knowledge of thermal processing
- 3+ years of experience in food processing, thermal processing, food engineering, or related fields