theHastingsgroup
Research & Development
Following are
description of some current individual positions.
*** New Listing ***
Principal Process Engineer N609
Eastern MA
Requirements: BS in engineering, food science, or related field plus
8-10 years experience or advanced degree with 4-5 years experience. Must have
manufacturing plant experience as well as lab experience. Must have strong
leadership ability to manage projects, teams and individuals. Data mining and
management experience is critical and a background in experimental design would
be ideal. Experience with crystallized fruits, extraction of oils (soy bean,
corn, peanuts, etc.) and drying experience are critical in this role. Must be
able to travel (approx. 30%.)
Responsibilities: Position will
have full technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing and
coordinating projects and assignments.
make authoritative technical/administrative decisions and recommendations on
projects that support innovation and renovation efforts in the food and beverage
network.
demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and
solving problems that arise from processing food and/or beverage products.
work closely with senior management in developing strategies that help achieve
the cooperatives long term goals.
determine program objectives and requirements and develop standards and
guidelines for diverse R&D activities. This role may supervise activities of
assigned staff members.
be part of a team of approximately seven engineers (Packaging and Processing).
This role may focus on food and/or beverage products.
be a point of contact for day-to-day support for several of our manufacturing
facilities.
*** New Listing ***
Senior Technologist- Dairy R607
Mid-West Location
Requirements: Candidate will have a BS degree in Food Science or
related plus a minimum of 5 years experience developing fruit preparations for
the Dairy/Yogurt industry.
Responsibilities: Candidate will have developed complete fruit
preparations for the Dairy/Yogurt industry. This will include developing new
ideations as well as matching competitive products, scale-up to
commercialization and product demonstrations. Familiarity with fruit,
sweeteners, stabilizers, flavors and color in the development of fruit base
preparations necessary. Knowledge of customer manufacturing procedures is
important. Candidate will be up to date with application techniques/evaluation
of hydrocolloids/gums/starches/pectin in the development of fruit bases and
preparations. Candidate will do joint sales calls with account managers
performing customer presentations of new developments.
*** New Listing ***
Research Scientist- Innovation N591
Green Bay
Requirements: Master's degree in Dairy Science or related field plus a minimum of 5 years experience in Research Science. Experience
with cheese, dairy products, and dairy ingredients are preferred. Individual
must have a desire to grow and take on new challenges and opportunities.
Responsibilities: In this role you will develop new and innovative
products and manufacturing processes and develop new or more cost effective
ingredients and associated production methods. Identify and implement testing
methodologies that improve our product analysis capabilities. Work as part of
our Innovation team to renew and implement the general concept of Innovation as
a cross-functional responsibility. Duties of this role include:
Define work plans, conduct experiments, and write reports, with basic
understanding of department SOPs, apply basic quality tools and explore new
project work with passion.
Exercise good understanding of product categories, including regulatory
standards, labeling practices, and patent law. Develop high level of expertise
in several product categories.
Apply scientific principles and understandings to evaluate ideas and
opportunities. Develop and expand global network of contacts within food & dairy
industries as well as academia.
Participate in brainstorming and innovation ideation sessions to inspire,
collect, and prioritize ideas for innovation portfolio. Investigate potential
opportunities and identify new resources required to innovate.
Conduct primary research on dairy products (milk, cheese, process cheese,
yogurt, & cream cheese). Understand dairy components and identify opportunities
to improve our utilization of those components for use as ingredients or
products.
Identify, explore, and potentially implement new ingredients, products,
manufacturing technologies to improve efficiency, sales, and profitability. Work
in laboratory, pilot plant, or at production locations. Develop products,
processes, and technology that are robust and use sound experimental design to
validate. Maintain strong application of scientific method. Achieve technical
breakthroughs.
*** New Listing ***
Senior Scientist N585
Green Bay, WI
Requirements: The successful candidate will have a MS in Dairy
Science with a focus on Dairy Protein, Dairy Chemistry or Rheology plus a
minimum 3 year experience in Research, Innovation, or Dairy Operations.
Individual must possess a strong scientific method understanding as well as
experimental design.
Responsibilities: Individual will develop new and innovative products and
modify existing ones to improve overall quality at reduced rates of cost.
Specific duties of the role include:
Define work plans and write reports, with basic understanding of department
SOP, applying basic quality tools and exploring new project work with passion.
Exercise basic understanding of SFI product categories, including regulatory
standards, SFI labeling practices patent law, having a core area of expertise.
Develop products, processes and technology that are robust, and use sound
experimental design, and achieve technical breakthroughs.
Serve as effective team member and work to accomplish work by building
positive relationships with team members; possesses basic listening skills.
Exercises basic communications skills, such as conveying basic technical
concepts to others, writing basic technical reports, and effectively conducting
presentations primarily to inform others.
*** New Listing ***
Research Scientist- Innovations N584
Green Bay, WI
Requirements: The successful candidate will have an MS in Food
Science, Dairy Science or related field with a focus on dairy proteins, dairy
chemistry and processing of dairy products plus a minimum 5-10 years of
experience in research in the food industry. Must display excellent knowledge of
dairy operations, dairy chemistry and research methods and possess strong
scientific method understanding and experimental design.
Responsibilities: Individual will develop new and innovative products and
manufacturing processes; develop new or more cost effective ingredients and
associated production methods; identify and implement testing methodologies that
improve product analysis capabilities; work as part of the Corporate Innovation
team to renew and implement the general concept of Innovation as a
cross-functional effort within the organization. Specific duties of this role
include:
Conducting primary research on dairy products (milk, cheese, proc cheese,
yogurt, cream cheese)
Identify opportunities to improve our utilization of those dairy components
for use as ingredients or products
Advising laboratory on measurement techniques and methodologies
Participating in brainstorming and innovation ideation sessions to inspire,
collect, and prioritize ideas for innovation portfolio; investigate potential
opportunities;
Defining work plans, conducting experiments, and writing reports with basic
understanding of department SOP, applying basic quality tools and exploring new
project work with passion
Exercising good understanding product categories, including regulatory
standards, labeling practices and patent law.
Developing a high level of expertise in several product categories
Applying scientific principles and understandings to evaluate ideas and
opportunities
Developing and expanding global network of contacts within food & dairy
industries, and academia
Identifying, exploring, and potentially implementing new ingredients,
products, and/or manufacturing technologies to improve efficiency, sales, and
profitability
Exercising excellent listening and communication skills, such as conveying
technical concepts to others, writing detailed technical reports, and
effectively conducting presentations to inform and influence decisions of others
*** New Listing ***
Food Technologist H923
Various Mid-west locations
Requirements: BS Food Science, MS preferred plus at least two year of
experience in product development. Must have good creative, problem solving, and
organizational skills. Experience with a variety of ingredients and processing
systems is preferred. Frozen products experience is a plus. More experience
necessary for Senior Food Technologist position.
Responsibilities: Individual will be responsible for the management of
product development activities (design test work, obtain resources, evaluate
results with team and determine direction, maintain appropriate records of work)
from concept through commercialization. Must be able to participate in team and
departmental activities such as panels, meetings, committees, administrative
obligations, etc. Must be open to personal improvement opportunities including
culinary training. Must be able to take product from ideation through scale-up.
If you want to apply for one of these positions or be notified about new
positions fitting your credentials please fill out our online
application.
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