Research Scientist – R&D, Salty Pretzels
The Hershey Company
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Hershey • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Reporting to the Senior Manager, Salty R&D and based at the Hershey Tech Center, the Research Scientist, Salty R&D position provides project leadership through assisting on high complexity projects, leading workstreams within larger projects, and/or leading low complexity projects with support.
- Leverage knowledge and experience to drive Salty product innovation with focus on pretzels initiatives.
- Lead prototyping and development of low to medium complexity projects from benchtop to manufacturing scale
- Participate in project design and methodology, test ideas through experimentation, and determine next steps through problem solving and statistics
- Problem solving through application of knowledge and creative thinking
- Ensure product knowledge and technology transfer through project reports and presentations
- Collect, organize, and analyze date to draw actionable conclusions
- Actively work to expand baking and snack expertise while staying engaged in current snacking trends
- Support continuous improvement initiatives, including internal and co-man opportunities
- Work within a team to ensure product recipe and specification documentation is complete and accurate
Requirements
- Food Science or Food Engineering is desirable.
- Strong understanding of principles of food chemistry and ingredient functionality is desirable.
- Operations/Manufacturing knowledge with some exposure to a production environment
- Familiarity with regulatory and standards compliance with some exposure to ESHA Genesis
- Technical writing
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Scale-up/plant test process
- Ability to collaborate across departments and leverage external consultants and vendors to deliver on project timelines
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently in a flexible work environment with changing priorities
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to occasionally work outside of typical work hours (nights/weekends) to support project work
- Be able to lift 40 lbs from floor to bench, stoop, stand, etc and work in a warm environment
- Possess good computer skills (knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Teams).
Benefits
- 25% domestic travel
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
project leadershipcollaborationflexibilityteamworkcreative thinkingcommunicationadaptabilitytime managementindependenceproblem-solving