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Claremont Foods, LLC
Job Description Innovation Technician
JOB TITILE: Innovation Technician
SCHEDULE: Full Time
LOCATION: Westminster, CO
INDUSTRY: Food Manufacturing
FLSA STATUS: Salary-Exempt
REPORTS TO: Director of Innovation
Position Summary: The Innovation Technician will play a hands-on role in supporting product development and innovation projects from bench to pilot and production scale. This position requires flexibility, technical aptitude, and strong collaboration skills to ensure successful client-directed projects and production runs. The role will include working directly with clients, managing bench-top prototypes, supporting plant trials, and assisting with technical documentation and reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Development
- Understanding of client expectations and project objectives
- Detailed understanding of the functionality of ingredients
- Ability to develop new prototypes on aggressive timelines and specific restrictions. (Example of restrictions: maximum cost per unit, specific labelling requirements such as “natural,” specific shelf-life requirements, etc.)
- Support product line trials and first production runs
- Maintain detailed records of work
- Effective communication across interdepartmental team
- Continuous Improvement
- Update formulations to meet current external and internal client expectations
- Update documentation
- Ability to review and approve alternative ingredient suppliers
- Attend production runs to provide technical knowledge and suggestions for ongoing operations/quality improvement
- Responsible for adherence to Safe Quality Food Level 2 compliance standards as trained upon annually
- Other duties as assigned
- Key metrics: shift profitability, first time quality, safe practices, number of new products developed and successfully launched, fees generated from Innovation activities