Product Development Associate
About The Position
Our Product Development Associates bring ideas to life for both our wet and dry factories. As part of the Technical Services group, you’ll create the flavors, shapes, and textures often innovated in marketing and so enjoyed by pets. Come prepared to handle various intermediate-term product developments and engineering processes for the business, as well as provide technical support to manufacturing operations. You’ll leverage your sharp science background and food formulation experience to be able to effectively qualify new raw materials and suppliers. Identify and lead performance, waste reduction, and quality improvement projects to help us remain a leader on the shelf. Our fast-paced, multi-functional teams are focused on taking new products from conception to market.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 6 months of product development (food), formulation and scale-up experience, or related
Responsibilities
- Manage development, scale up, and implementation of new and existing technologies to improve the performance of existing products and develop new products
- Explore innovative applications of pet food product/process possibilities based on current state-of-art food technology
- Serve as technical resource for marketing to develop a robust pipeline of product development opportunities, which includes developing technical project plans and timelines for all assigned projects
- Support product formulation including appropriate ingredients, nutritional, regulatory and analytical requirements
- Proactively monitor and provide product maintenance for assigned product responsibilities requiring standardized scientific procedures
- Initiate and implement cost reduction ideas for assigned product lines and factories
Benefits
- 401k with Company match
- healthcare coverage
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
