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Our Product Development Specialist brings ideas to life for both our wet and dry factories. As part of the Technical Applications Group, you’ll create the flavors, shapes, and textures invented in marketing and so enjoyed by pets. Join us and manage various intermediate-term product developments and engineering processes for the business, as well as provide technical support to manufacturing operations. You’ll leverage your sharp science background and food formulation experience to effectively qualify new raw materials and suppliers. By managing product formulas with appropriate ingredient, nutritional, regulatory, and analytical requirements, you’ll identify and lead performance, waste reduction, and quality improvement projects to help us remain a leader. Buckle up because you can expect to work on fast-paced, multi-functional teams focused on taking new products from conception to market.
Job Responsibility:
Manage development, scale up, and implementation of technologies to improve the performance of existing products and develop new products
Explore innovative applications of pet food product/process possibilities based on current state-of-the-art food technology
Serve as a technical resource for marketing to develop a robust pipeline of product development opportunities inclusive of developing technical project plans and timelines for all assigned projects
Support product formulation including appropriate ingredients, nutritional, regulatory, and analytical requirements
Proactively monitor and provide product maintenance for assigned product responsibilities requiring standardized scientific procedures
Initiate and implement cost reduction ideas for assigned product lines and factories
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree
1+ year of product development (food), formulation and scale-up experience, or related