Food Scientist at Tyson Foods, Inc. in Springdale, Arkansas

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This position is responsible for developing and commercializing new and improved products and/or processes with the ability to identify opportunities and work projects autonomously. This covers all stages of product development and process development including writing new product specifications, and ensuring regulatory labeling and food safety requirements are met. Additional responsibilities include developing samples/prototypes of new products, modifying existing products, optimizing existing products, developing specifications for product production labeling, and compiling cost analysis information. Essential duties include working with and strongly influencing marketing, insights, sales, culinary, FSQA, operations and purchasing departments, coordinating with suppliers of ingredients, ensuring smooth start-up for new product production processes.


The Scientist in this position will have a strong working knowledge of the Research & Development process and is expected to leverage knowledge related to ingredients, product formulation and food processing to support best in class development of new innovative food products. The person in this position will also be responsible for working across multiple product lines and processes, conducting research with a focus on food safety, shelf life, sensory technologies, yield improvement and optimization efforts to meet our business objectives. This position will be responsible for analyzing, interpreting and presenting data for effective communication of product development and/or research findings to the business team and Sr. R&D Leadership team. This position will have a general understanding of culinary techniques and their interaction with the science. This person will be working on teams within R&D and across the organization in normal project work or special project assignments. This position will utilize problem solving techniques, presentation skills and relationship building to effectively work with marketing, sales, process, package, engineering, insights, culinary, regulatory, FSQA, operations, purchasing as well as major external customers. This person will identify, develop and complete special projects as needed.



REQUIREMENTS:




EDUCATION: BS, MS or PhD in Food Science, Meat Science, Food Engineering or related field. No degree with minimum of 10 years relevant experience.

EXPERIENCE: PhD with minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, M.S. with minimum of 3 years of relevant experience, B.S. with minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. No degree with minimum of 10 years relevant experience.

COMPUTER SKILLS: Requires excellent computer skills with ability to fully utilize MS Office products and Tyson systems (or like systems).

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Good verbal and written communication skills required. Presentation skills required. Must have the ability to effectively communicate with cross functional business partners.

SPECIAL SKILLS (if applicable): Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills. Strong project management skills. Strong numerical skills.

SUPERVISORY: May supervise a team of hourly technicians that support a team of scientists. May also manage one or two salaried scientists.

TRAVEL: 25% - 12+ domestic trips per year. Travel will be required to accomplish our internal and external customer needs. Travel will include customer meetings, plant production facilities for testing and commercialization of new products, process troubleshooting and any other regular business needs.


Must in reside in United States, position not eligible for sponsorship


SCOPE DATA: In addition to the above information, provide information to quantify the scope of responsibility for each job.


Manage multiple complex innovation and optimization projects from concept through commercialization. This includes planning, executing experiments, analyzing data, reporting results and making recommendations on next steps. Executing the development process from concept to commercialization. These activities include bench top development, pilot plant testing, and scale-up production at a federally inspected research facility and final commercialization at full scale production facility. Seek educational opportunities and building relationships as it relates to emerging technologies and ingredients to meet the needs of our growth organization. This position would be considered an internal technical expert in their field. Position is responsible for identifying innovation that is treated as IP that can give Tyson a competitive edge in the industry. Must be able to analyze data in order to build product specification that is process capable. Will compile cost analysis information and provide to product management. Must be able to present technical data or concepts to laypersons on their level of understanding. Must have a strong working knowledge of the costing structure to meet the financial expectations of projects. Effectively work on cross functional teams across the organization for project completion that will ultimately help achieve our growth and EBIT strategies. Travel to plant product facilities could result in hours worked outside the normal corporate work schedule. Personnel working in any plant environment will need to have a heightened awareness to personal safety due to cold environment, wet floors, moving machinery and the nature of the processing equipment.



Relocation Assistance Eligible:

Yes



Work Shift:



1ST SHIFT (United States of America)


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Tyson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.


We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.



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