Objectives of the Role:

The Research and Development Specialist will be responsible for conducting extensive research and analysis to drive product innovation within the organization. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for improvement and implement effective solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Conducts new ingredient and food product research.

- Improves product quality or cost by modifying formulation of current products. 

- Performs physical and chemical analyses on ingredients and/or food products.

- Develops product, process and/or packaging specifications for food products.

- Studies methods to improve quality of foods such as flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, or physical, chemical, and microbiological composition of foods.

- Tests new products in the lab and develops processing methods in the pilot plant.

- Performs product scale-up and new product commissioning.

- Conducts operational data analyses to finalize product and process specifications.