Food Scientist II

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Tyson Foods
Food Scientist II
in
Downers Grove
Illinois
Position Summary:
This position is responsible for cost optimization and commercializing new and improved products and/or processes through guidance from their manager. This covers all stages of product development and process development including writing new product specifications, ensuring regulatory labeling and food safety requirements are met.
The person in this position will have a strong working knowledge of the scientific methods and is expected to leverage knowledge related to ingredients, product formulation and food processing to support best in class development of new, innovative food products.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Working with and strongly influencing marketing, insights, sales, culinary, FSQA, operations and purchasing departments, coordinating with suppliers of ingredients, ensuring smooth start‐up for new product production processes
Modifying or optimizing existing products, developing specifications for product production labeling, and compiling cost analysis information.
Work multiple development and optimization projects of moderate complexity, independently, from concept through commercialization with guidance from manager. This includes planning, executing experiments, analyzing data, reporting results.
Execute the development process with activities that include bench top development, pilot plant testing, and scale‐up production at a federally inspected research facility and final commercialization at full scale production facility
Help team to identify innovation that is treated as IP that can give Tyson a competitive edge in the industry
Analyze data to build product specification that is process capable
Present technical data or concepts to laypersons on their level of understanding
Compile cost analysis information and provide to product management
Ensure costing structure meets the financial expectations of projects
Work on cross functional teams across the organization for project completion that will ultimately help achieve our growth and EBIT strategies
Travel to plant product facilities
Take on and complete special projects as needed.
Qualifications:
BS, MS or PhD in Food Science, Meat Science, Food Engineering or related field. No degree with minimum of 8 years relevant experience.
PhD with no experience. M.S. with minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, B.S. with minimum of 3 years of relevant experience. No degree with minimum of 8 years relevant experience.
Requires excellent computer skills with ability to fully utilize MS Office products and Tyson systems (or like systems)
Good verbal and written communication skills required. Presentation skills required. Must have the ability to effectively communicate with cross functional business partners.
Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills. Strong project management skills. Strong numerical skills.
25% ‐ 12 domestic trips per year. Travel will be required to accomplish our internal and external customer needs. Travel will include customer meetings, plant production facilities for testing and commercialization of new products, process trouble shooting and any other regular business needs.
Relocation assistance will be offered with this role.
Work Shift:
1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
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