Food Product Development Scientist — Scale-Up

ADP, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP, Inc. seeks a Food Scientist to drive product development from benchtop to commercialization, formulating new items, and reformulating existing ones to meet USDA labelling, organic, and allergen requirements.

You will partner with cross-functional teams including Procurement, Operations and Quality to execute projects, document results, and provide technical support to customers while ensuring compliance and quality across scaled processes.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of ingredients and food systems.
• Working knowledge of regulatory and labelling.
• Understand product requirements, plant equipment, and processes to enable the creation of detailed procedures and specifications.
• Provide judgment and experience to assure that an appropriate level of technical common sense and discipline are being employed and utilized in business decisions.
• Must be able to present ideas and solutions in technical reports, proposals and presentations, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical information to customers.
• Push the boundaries of current, and future products, thinking outside of the box to help create new products.
• Operation of lab equipment, including but not limited to, pH meter, moisture analyzer, stove, scales, Brix meter, and Bostwick consistometer.
• Strong computer skills: Microsoft Office applications, experience with Genesis and Oracle a plus.

Responsibilities

• Reformulate and develop products based on customer-provided guidelines, including USDA labelling, organic, nutritional restrictions, allergen-free, and cost restraints.
• Document and maintain organized, detailed records of laboratory formulation variables and data analysis.
• Execute laboratory and confirmation (scale-up) experiments that examine the operational and formulation variables that impact key product attributes such as taste, appearance, texture, etc.
• Collaborate with industrial teams to conduct line trials. Ensure knowledge transfer and adherence of quality from the lab to industrial scale-up. Document and report on test runs and results.
• Provide product information and technical support to customers.
• Create preliminary Nutrition Facts Panels (NFP) and ingredient statements with guidance from Regulatory Specialist.
• Recommend ingredient substitutions to ensure supply based on knowledge of ingredient function and approved resources.
• Contribute to the development of project timelines.
• Partner with cross-functional teams toexecute continuous improvements and solvetechnical challenges for internal and external customers.
• Provide guidance to lab personnel on technical formulation requirements, specification development, data collection, and procedures.
• Provides input and approves specifications as required for new/revised SKUs.
• Partner with Procurement to identify vendors, source raw materials, and help establish supplier specifications.
• Participate in cuttings of your own products, fellow food scientist's products, production quality cuttings, and competitive products.
• Develops and improves knowledge of operating systems, product standards, raw materials, and suppliers.
• Working knowledge of an R&D organization, including product development flow and project management from conception to product launch.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Ingredients knowledge

Regulatory knowledge

Product requirements

Technical communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Lab equipment operation

MS Office / Genesis / Oracle

Education

Bachelor's Food Science

Job description

ADP, Inc. seeks a Food Scientist to drive product development from benchtop to commercialization, formulating new items, and reformulating existing ones to meet USDA labelling, organic, and allergen requirements.

You will partner with cross-functional teams including Procurement, Operations and Quality to execute projects, document results, and provide technical support to customers while ensuring compliance and quality across scaled processes.