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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Marshall, MN
Marshall, Minnesota

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Description

At Schwan's Company we are driven to bring our customers delicious foods and reliable services. That's how we grew from a "one-man-and-a-truck" delivery business in rural Minnesota to a multibillion-dollar private company with thousands of team members nationwide. Our commitment to delicious foods shows in all we do, from careful ingredient selection to making quality food to delivering a great experience wherever people shop and eat.

The foods we make reach customers in many ways. We deliver directly to our customers’ homes through our popular food-delivery business, offer well-known retail brands such as Red Baron®, Freschetta®, and Tony's® pizzas, Pagoda® snacks and appetizers, and Mrs. Smith's® and Edwards® desserts, and bring innovative food solutions to our customers in the foodservice industry. To learn more, visit us at .


Schwan’s is looking for a Food Scientist to join our Product Innovation & Development team at our Corporate offices in Marshall, MN. This person will work primarily on the development of ice cream and novelties, including products for Schwan’s Home Service, Schwan’s Food Service and Consumer Brands. R&D experience with ice cream or other frozen dairy products is especially beneficial. This individual will lead lower to moderately complex product development projects, develop formulas, processing procedures and specifications for new products, product enhancements and cost reductions.

  • Uses science to study the principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods; analyze food content; discover new food sources; research ways to make processed foods safe, palatable, and healthful; and apply food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package, preserve, store, and distribute food.
  • Develops experimental formulas, processing procedures and specifications for raw ingredients, subassemblies and finished products for new products, product improvements, and cost reductions, meeting pricing, marketing, regulations and operational goals.
  • Organizes and manages moderately complex test runs to validate or modify formulas and processing procedures to develop final specifications for the production and reproducibility of finished products.
  • Works with team members to ensure successful start-ups of new products, product improvements, cost reductions, and ingredient formula specification or process changes.
  • Evaluates ingredients and processing techniques to identify and commercialize simple product improvement and cost reduction opportunities.
  • Evaluates, confirms acceptability, creates/updates specifications and implements proposed ingredients or process for Supplier Optimization.
  • Provides technical solutions to production issues as it relates to ingredient, formulas, processing procedures, and specifications to ensure continuous production and maintain product quality and safety.
  • Documents project status, progress issues, solutions timeline, and accountability according to established procedures and guidelines, providing timely and effective oral and written communication and reports.
  • Supports innovation in the development of new ideas, products, or product platforms through ideation sessions and bench-top experimentation.
Qualifications

Education & Experience Required: A Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science, Dairy Science or related field, and 1-4 years experience in an R&D position, OR a Master’s Degree in Food Science or related field. Experience with ice cream products preferred. 2+ years experience within a manufacturing based Product Development role is preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

  • Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and effectively communicate with peers, other Manufacturing employees and senior leadership;
  • Comfortable with taking initiative and driving for results in an industrial environment
  • Keen attention to detail and process
  • Strong PC skills, including Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word & Powerpoint
  • Ability to taste and ingest any type of food product currently under development
  • Thorough understanding of food ingredients, food chemistry, food processing, and food functionality
  • Ability to comprehend complex technical articles, research papers, or presentations, and apply technical knowledge learned
  • Must be adaptable to change
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and offer solutions
  • Prior experience in Product Development, preferably with ice cream and dairy products, particularly within a plant manufacturing environment

The employing subsidiaries of The Schwan Food Company are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, age, race, color, religion, gender, vet status, national origin or other protected class.

Business Unit: Schwan's Shared Services, LLC
Req #: 17004123