Senior Applications Technologist & Lab Leader

Custom Ingredients, Inc.; Concord (NH); On-site; USD 105,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Custom Ingredients, Inc. seeks a Principal Applications Technologist to provide technical leadership across food, beverage, confectionery, and nutraceutical categories.

This hands-on role blends advanced development, customer engagement, and laboratory leadership to craft prototype formulations and solve formulation challenges. Reporting to the Director of R&D, this senior role leads the North Carolina Applications Laboratory, collaborates with customers through onsite visits, innovation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemistry, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in food or flavor applications.
• Experience supervising technical personnel and laboratory operations preferred.
• Willingness to travel domestically, including regular customer visits and collaboration with the California R&D team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize prototype formulations for food, beverage, confectionery, nutraceutical, and functional food applications using company flavor systems.
• Provide formulation expertise, troubleshooting, and innovative solutions to customers via onsite visits, presentations, and collaborative product development.
• Lead complex application development projects from concept through commercialization, including bench-top development, sensory evaluation, and manufacturing support.
• Manage daily operations of the North Carolina Applications Laboratory, including equipment, inventory, documentation, and compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Recruit, hire, train, supervise, and develop North Carolina Applications Laboratory personnel, fostering a collaborative, customer-focused culture.
• Develop, maintain, and improve application platforms, prototype formulas, ingredient libraries, and laboratory procedures.

Skills

Advanced food science

Flavor applications

Prototype formulation

Customer engagement

Laboratory leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Food Science/Engineering/C Chemistry

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Custom Ingredients, Inc. seeks a Principal Applications Technologist to provide technical leadership across food, beverage, confectionery, and nutraceutical categories.

This hands-on role blends advanced development, customer engagement, and laboratory leadership to craft prototype formulations and solve formulation challenges. Reporting to the Director of R&D, this senior role leads the North Carolina Applications Laboratory, collaborates with customers through onsite visits, innovation