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    Principal Scientist - Chicago, IL, United States - Lactalis USA

    Lactalis USA
    Lactalis USA Chicago, IL, United States

    4 weeks ago

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    JOB TITLE: Principal Scientist

    REPORTING TO: R&D Team Lead

    LOCATION: Chicago, IL

    Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Chicago

    Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

    If you're looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you

    Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.

    From your PASSION to ours

    Will be responsible for the technological part of projects, to improve existing products or creating new products, within specific product group or channel of business. Will organize and implement trials, from conceptual stages through end of the projects, to reach the goals defined by the project teams, using the following duties:

    From your EXPERTISE to ours

    Key responsibilities for this position include:

    • Provide technical knowledge on a variety of projects, which will improve quality, yields, or address any other areas identified by the company to enhance products or production processes.
    • Propose Ideas for new product
    • Will propose and organize pilot plant or plant trials, interpret the results and assist process development; will be responsible to write well structured thorough reports, with proper conclusions and recommendations
    • Work with plant and engineering in conducting feasibility studies pertaining to new product development and product improvement.
    • Work closely and develop good relationship with other departments (Marketing, Purchasing, Packaging, Manufacturing, QA, Legal)
    • Continually explore and evaluate ways to improve all aspects of production, including raw materials, production techniques, specifications, packaging, shelf life, etc.
    • Participate in Quality Assurance activities involving any number of issues or concerns. This may include activities such as HACCP analysis, good manufacturing practices, labeling, standards of identity etc...
    • Coordinate all support activities including maintaining complex technical notes and records of activity.
    • Ensure the confidentiality of our process, information.
    • Participate in patent search to protect company business and ensure that all findings are properly documented and recorded.
    • Develop and maintain contact inside R&D company network, including developing product for other countries and subsidiaries or sharing data, information, knowledge with other teams
    • Develop and maintain both industry and academic contacts to remain current in regard to technical developments.
    • Be capable of acting as a Research & Development Technician for all routine pilot plant activities
    • Travel for plant trials, training, focus groups type settings, suppliers visits, etc. as needed
    • Travel may be intense, up to 30% of the time

    Requirements

    From your STORY to ours

    Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

    Education/Experience

    • Master's degree (M.S.) or equivalent in Dairy or Food Science
    • 5-10 years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience

    Technical Skills

    • Strong Cheese process knowledge
    • Strong Food Technology knowledge (Microbiology / Physics / Biochemistry / Process)
    • Strong Mathematics knowledge including statistics.
    • Strong Communication skills to communicate with other department and technicians
    • Strong Computer skills with a working knowledge of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for report writing and presentations.

    Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.

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