Technologist, Product Development, Pet Research & Development

Your Opportunity as the Technologist, Product Development - Pet Research & Development

Lead hands-on development and testing of new pet food products leveraging your science and engineering expertise. Design experiments, analyze data, and help bring innovation to life while working in our labs, pilot plants, or even consulting with our Pet food facilities.

Location: Orrville, OH

Work Arrangements: Hybrid, 60% minimum in office presence with 30% domestic travel annually

In this role you will:

• Design products based on a business need, as defined by consumer insights, a product brief and learning plan, while under guidance of a manager

• Formulate products based on ingredient functionality, nutritional targets, consumer need, claim substantiation, operational feasibility, and financial targets

• Conduct experiments from rapid, iterative prototyping to development and scale-up (benchtop, pilot plant, plant)

• Review and interpret data, from process trials, measurements from chemical/physical analysis, feeding studies, storage studies, statistical analysis, providing conclusions and recommendations

• Partner with other disciplines and resources, both internal and external to R&D and JMS, sharing information, building upon an integration of ideas

• Compose new and update existing documents such as specs (ingredients, finished product), reports, project updates, data analyses, laboratory notebooks, etc.

• Share and present technical data internally and externally to R&D, both verbal and written

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in science, Technology, or Engineering

• Requires knowledge and expertise in own discipline/area

• Strong time management skills

• Effective presentation, verbal and written communication skills

• Proficient in establishing and adhering to procedures

• Work with quality/safety in mind

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• Previous experience with food and/or pet food product development

• Experience with food processes, e.g. extrusion, thermal processing, or baking

• Formulation experience

• Coursework in nutrition

• Demonstrated ability to acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills

• Ability to work under moderate supervision within guidelines and processes

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