Principal Food Scientist Food Safety - CSCO - R&D
Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products. We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world. Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers. While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world’s best-known companies.
Principal Food Scientist Food
At Griffith Foods, we are in search of a Principal R&D Food Scientist, whose mission will be to lead, develop, define strategies, and coordinate efforts for product development aligned with initiatives, ensuring compliance with quality, safety, nutrition, and sustainability requirements.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the process of developing new products.
- Promote the achievement of financial objectives and defined impact metrics for the R&D process.
- Identify areas of research and technology required to meet company objectives.
- Develop key projects for the organization, with everything required for their implementation.
- Ensure compliance in the manufacturing and packaging process with specifications agreed upon with the client.
- Create technical information for new developments.
- Verify compliance with legal standards.
- Constant technical improvement in technical categories.
- Meetings and visits to key suppliers.
- Establish and maintain quality and food safety standards, overseeing laboratory tests and analyses.
REQUIREMENTS
- Food Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Biological Engineer, or related.
- Must be Bilingual (English): Advanced.
EXPERIENCE
- Over 8 years of experience in the Food sector, in the Research and Development area.
SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Experience in product development, with specific knowledge in the category of nutritional blends, supplements, sports drinks.
- Knowledge of the processes involved in the production of such products, technical aspects related to specific raw materials for this segment, and applicable regulations.
- Personnel management
- Product development
- Regulation
- Nutrition
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic or information, AIDS or HIV status, order of protection status, marital status, military or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, participation in benefit programs, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
In carrying out our commitment to equal employment opportunity, Griffith Foods will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship, safety, and/or health risk. Applicants and employees requiring reasonable accommodations must notify Human Resources.
Other details
- Job Family Research and Development
- Job Function Commercial
- Pay Type Salary
- Employment Indicator Regular
- Travel Required Yes
- Required Education Master’s Degree
- Marinilla, Antioquia - Griffith Colombia SA, Autopista Medellin Bogota Km 39 Marinilla Colombia, Marinilla, Antioquia, Colombia