Senior Food Scientist - Breakfast and Handhelds

Tyson Foods•Springdale, AR

8d•Onsite

About The Position

This role will support Prepared Foods Retail and Retail Brands, primarily for Breakfast. Focus areas are developing emerging technologies, 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 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.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Food Science, Meat Science, Food Engineering, or related field.
Related degree with minimum of 8 years relevant Research and Development work experience.
No degree with minimum of 15 years relevant experience.
PhD with minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
M.S. with minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
B.S. with minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
No degree with minimum of 10 years relevant experience
Requires good 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, understanding of product formulation, food processing and the Research and Development process, understanding of regulatory labeling and food safety requirements

Responsibilities

Working with and strongly influencing marketing, insights, sales, culinary, FSQA, operations and purchasing departments, coordinating with suppliers of ingredients, ensuring smooth start 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 innovations that is treated as IP that can give Tyson a competitive edge in the industry
Analyze data to build product specifications that is process capable
Present technical data or concepts to laypersons on their level of understanding
Compile cost analysis information and provide 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
Develop culinary samples/prototypes of new products, modifying existing products, optimizing existing products, developing specifications
Develop product production labels and compiling cost analysis information
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
Work with and influence cross functional team members (marketing, insights, sales, culinary, FSQA, operations and purchasing departments, coordinating with suppliers of ingredients) while ensuring smooth start-up for new product production processes
Travel to plant production facilities
Take on and complete special projects as needed.
Work with process development to develop process flow charts for engineering
Ability and Initiative to grow within the organization and develop a personal development plan with your manager
May supervise a team of hourly technicians that support a team of scientists.