What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Development Chemist position at CareersInFood.com?
Summary:
Callisons is seeking a Product Development Chemist to support oral care and confection flavor development. A successful candidate will have a strong background in organic chemistry, separation science, demonstrated experience in a lab environment, conducting experiments, and analyzing data. This role offers a unique opportunity to perform product deconstruction and formulation to solve flavor challenges in oral care and confection consumer products. This is a hands-on role located at our headquarters in Lacey, WA.
Responsibilities include:
- Create a comprehensive range of oral care and confection base formulas for showcasing Callisons products and matching consumer products.
- Perform deconstruction of consumer products and provide analytical insights to flavorists and product developers.
- Develop and maintain a library of base and flavor ingredients found in oral care and confection products.
- Develop novel methods and techniques to attain complete deconstruction of target products.
- Coordinate product stability testing and reporting.
- Participate in customer demonstrations.
- Collaborate effectively with peer departments to ensure on-time, right first-time project delivery.
- Mentor/develop junior staff.
Required Eduction:
Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Food Science, or other applied science.
Preferred Education:
Advanced degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Food Science, or similar scientific curriculum.
Salary : $90,000 - $150,000