Schreiber Foods strives to do good through food every day. Based in North America, we’re a customer-brand leader in cream cheese, natural cheese, process cheese, shelf-stable beverages and yogurt. Our more than 10,000 employees and presence on five continents enable us to be an essential ingredient in our customers’ success.
With annual sales of more than $7 billion, we partner with the best retailers, restaurants, distributors and food manufacturers around the globe. We also recognize our responsibility to do good in the world and are driven to make a difference in everything we do.
Life & Culture – We call ourselves partners – not employees – and there’s a good reason behind that. Our work is more than just a job. Our common goals drive and energize us as we work together to be the best we can be.
Caring is a huge part of who we are. We not only help each other grow; we take care of each other along the way. Whenever a partner is experiencing a hardship, it’s common for others to take the initiative to organize fundraisers to help support them through our Partners Helping Partners program. We also care about our communities and want to help make them better places to live every day.
Who are we looking for? Our people are truly the heart of our company, and we’re on a journey together. It’s about more than a job. We work hard to find great people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and provide opportunities to help them grow. Like a family, we care deeply about each other
Job Category:
Research & Development
Job Family:
Research and Development
Job Description:
Develop new and innovative products and manufacturing processes to meet customer’ needs. Modify existing products and processes to improve overall quality or costs. Develop or identify new or more cost-effective ingredients and production methods.
What you’ll do:
- Responsible for project management and good stakeholder management, product development principles, basic food regulatory understanding, R&D processes, protocols. Has good verbal/ written communication skills dealing with people from product development backgrounds. Develops & creates prototypes, carry out sensory, analytical evaluation and benchmarking of market products. Guides product development in product approval at customers end. Leads and works directly with production and QA team to ensure trial runs and start-up operations are properly performed for all new product development and improvement projects. Development of efficient process from R&D lab scale trials to plant scale by understanding the process in detail and upscaling on production floor. Work closely with cross functional team and help to fulfill the needs of R&D projects. Should be ok for travel for product trials and product evaluation. Able to work at flexible working hours when needed.
- Supervises product development technicians to maintain accurate inventory of R&D supplies, ingredients and finished good samples. Maintain a tracking sheet for all these inventories. Develops standards and audits the product development assets for 5S readiness. Ability to develop analytical methods on new and existing ingredients and products.
- Leads shelf-life reports on ingredients and products.
- Operates, performs needed preventative maintenance, and maintains various pilot plant equipment utilized to manufacture pilot bench top samples. Completes clean-in-place (CIP) and related sanitation tasks for the pilot plant unit & lab. Responsible for ensuring work area is clean and organized.
- Develops systems & procedures to ensure Safety and standardized work. Committed in ensuring food safety in product and process. Responsible for establishing HACCP plan for new products.
What you need to succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in food/dairy science or a related field.
- 4-5 years’ experience in research and/or product development.
- Cultured dairy products manufacturing experience preferred.
- Strong analytical and dairy component understanding.
- Sound knowledge on Natural & Processed Cheese manufacturing technology, awareness of formulation design, process improvement & modification.
- Well versed with the Food safety principles, HACCP and quality systems
- Desire to grow and take on new challenges and opportunities.
- Ability to travel up to 20%
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