Research & Development Technologist in Nottingham, Pennsylvania at Herr's Foods

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Herr's Foods
Nottingham, Pennsylvania, 19362, United States
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Job Description

Position Title: Research & Development Technologist

Department: Production

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Nottingham, PA

Workplace Type: Onsite
Description:
Building a great career never tasted so good!

We are currently seeking a qualified individual for the Research & Development Technologist position, that lives in a commutable distance to our Nottingham, PA team to join them on-site!
  • SCHEDULE: Monday-Friday 40+ hours a week
  • BENEFITS: This position is full-time benefit eligible, elective benefits include:
    • Medical, dental, hearing and vision insurance.
    • Marathon Health Clinic - a premier on-site healthcare provider. A separate entity from Herr's, located at our Nottingham, PA facility. This facility ensures easy access to tailored healthcare services, preventative care, wellness programs, for employees on any medical plan
    • Opportunity to contribute to a 401k, with a company match.
    • Paid vacation, holiday and sick time.
    • Paid Employee referral program.
Job Summary:
This role has the primary responsibility of developing new snack food products as well as refining existing products to meet customer and market needs/preferences. Formulates, tests, refines and commercializes snack food products for Regional, National and International markets, as well as Private Label Retailers. Collaborates with R&D specialists, process engineers, and manufacturing personnel to launch innovative snack food products on new and existing product lines.


Key Responsibilities:
Research and Development:
  • Develops new and improved methods and systems for food processing, production, quality control, packaging and distribution.
  • Develops methods to create and improve food product attributes such as flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, and convenience.
  • Conducts sensory evaluations of prototype samples and competitive products.
  • Conducts research to assess consumer trends and industry innovation.
  • Reviews changes in industry regulations and makes formal recommendations to appropriate teams regarding product revisions or development.
  • Develops finished product and process specifications.
  • Conducts research on quality improvements, cost optimization, process improvement, ingredient innovation and process technologies.
  • Assists with internal and external customer technical issues regarding ingredients, formulation and manufacturing.
Project Management:
  • Initiates new product testing, then develops specific processing methods when scaling project to a manufacturing process line.
  • Collaboration with Marketing Department for alignment on project details/requirements and co-management of timelines
  • Confers with process engineers, flavor experts, packaging and marketing specialists to address any concerns.
  • Facilitates technical expertise and training for operations, management, quality, sales and marketing to ensure completion of company objectives.
  • Leads customer testing /sensory evaluation of product developments.
Regulatory Support
  • Responsible for creating and managing technical documents.
  • Reviews packaging film for accuracy
  • Reviews nutrition fact panels and ingredient statements for compliance.
  • Initiates and manages third party testing and laboratory data when needed.
Reporting and Analysis
  • Complete detailed documentation of all projects.
  • Develops reports and presentations that clearly and concisely communicate conclusions and recommendations for product development.
In addition to the essential functions listed above, the employee is expected to exercise honesty, integrity and respect with all clients and co-workers, preserve confidentially of all business information and data, maintain a professional appearance and demeanor, demonstrate a positive attitude, communicate effectively with co-workers and clients, work with accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail, respect the work environment and keep it as environmentally friendly as possible, and exercise initiative to learn new skills and tasks and to help co-workers when possible. Reliable attendance and punctuality are also required. The employee is also expected to perform other related duties, special projects and functions as required from time to time.

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Nottingham, Pennsylvania, 19362, United States

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