Food Scientist Ii - Tempe, United States - Oats Overnight

Oats Overnight

Verified Company

Tempe, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

A Little About Us

Oats Overnight is changing the way people eat breakfast, and since launching in 2016, our high protein spoon-free oatmeal has been enjoyed by over 1,000,000 customers.

We are scaling quickly in both direct-to-consumer and retail with the goal of becoming a household brand.

We have end-to-end control of all phases of the business, producing and fulfilling the product in-house, which is extremely rare for companies our size.

This allows us to create new flavors and products quickly and is a tremendous advantage for our brand - we're able to give customers a behind-the-scenes look at what we do, highlighting our people and process in content.

Being vertically integrated also enables us to incorporate customers directly in the development process.

A Little About How We Do Things
Starting with our founder/CEO and extending to multiple teams across all departments, many of us come from non-traditional backgrounds.

This is a superpower - we are not stuck in traditional industry patterns, but instead leverage extreme rationality and first principles thinking to solve problems and find new opportunities.

This is a special place to work, and our team is what makes it that way; this is why every employee is also an owner.

As such, there is a high level of expectation for all team members.

What We're Looking For

Someone that can partner and influence at all different levels
Ability to handle multiple priorities and navigate in a fast moving environment
Expectations will be clearly set, but an ambitious approach to the work is key
Ability to artfully convey even subtle or complex messages clearly, as appropriate for the topic and audience.
A relentless drive to get things done.
Curious and entrepreneurial mindset.
Enjoys working in a highly collaborative and supportive team environment
Flexible, willing, and quick to learn new processes, new technology, and new ways of thinking.

What's The Job?

We are looking for an innovative experienced food scientist to join our R&D team to develop new products and renovate existing offerings.

The food scientist will collaborate with project teams to create new products from conceptualization to commercialization.

This role will evolve, improve, and optimize nutritional quality, flavor, texture, cost and function of food products while maintaining our high standard of great-tasting products.

The food scientist will stay current with food industry trends and formulate new products and existing product renovations using the latest ingredients and technologies.

What You'll Be Doing, Stop Scanning and Read This Part

New flavor development:_
Perform an initial assessment of new flavor ingredients by screening and determining finished product compatibility.
Develop new flavor systems for use in existing base product formulations.
Validate new flavor system performance in finished products by performing laboratory experiments, analyzing data, and creating written reports to communicate results.
Organize and conduct organoleptic testing of lab prototypes, food ingredients, flavors, and finished products, and documents the results.
New product development/ product performance optimization_
Conduct market research and prepares new product concept briefs.
Formulate new products with unique product differentiation and sales potential.
Create formula specifications, blending instructions, and nutrition facts panels.
Assist with monitoring, managing and reporting shelflife studies.
Collect pertinent physical and chemical characteristics of finished and semifinished food products including bulk density, particle size, pH, water activity and viscosity.
Ingredient Qualification & Application:_
Identify, test and recommend new ingredients for use in new and existing products.
Perform an initial assessment of new ingredients by comparing them side by side with already existing ingredients, documents observations and makes recommendations.
Validate ingredient performance in finished products by performing laboratory experiments, analyzing data, and creating written reports to communicate results.
Organize organoleptic testing of ingredients and finished products and documents the results.
Manufacturing Technical Support:_
Assist with scaleup and technology transfer of new products.
Perform scaleup trials using pilot plant equipment.
Review and optimize order of operations, order of ingredient addition, processing times and equipment settings.
Make recommendations to improve batch uniformity and product quality.
Other duties as assigned

What You've Done And Who You Are

B.Sc, in Food Science, Nutrition, Chemistry, or related degree
Minimum 5 years experience, preferred 8+ years experience
Enjoys handson laboratory bench work including ingredient weighing, revising formulas, recording and analyzing data, etc.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proficient in s