Contractor Technician, Better For You Product Development

TekWissen LLC

Hershey, PA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$19–$20
SKILLS
Assembly Equipment, Beverages, Cleaning Equipment, Cleanroom, Communication Skills, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Entry, Diversity, Documentation, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), Inventory Management, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing, Multitasking, Needs Assessment, Organizational Skills, Pilot Plant, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Development, Product Support, Product Testing, Project/Program Management, Prototyping, Research & Development (R&D), Sales, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Startup, Team Player, Time Management, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Hershey, PA
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational company and one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the worldIt also manufactures baked products, beverages and many more that are produced globally
Position: Contractor Technician, Better For You Product Development
Location: Hershey, PA, 17033
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 1st shift
Job Details:
Main Duties:
  • Reporting to the Associate Manager Better For You R&D and working at client's Technical Center, the position will work with multiple scientists within the Better For You R&D team to achieve company innovation goals and programs.
  • The individual will perform basic tasks and follow standard work methods or specific instructions required to support product development.
  • Successful candidate will work in partnership with scientists and engineers to create samples and prototypes using different technologies and methods.
  • The individual must be competent with basic calculations, data collection, handling ingredients, computer applications, good manufacturing practices, and pilot plant manufacturing production.
  • A successful candidate is expected to be dependable and proactive, as well as have excellent communication skills.
  • Candidate will work specifically on protein bars, low sugar/zero sugar chocolate confections, and the possibility of zero sugar hard candy & gummies.
Specific Role Focus Area:
  • Benchtop development
  • Pilot plant testing
  • Equipment assembly and preparation
  • Support in-plant initiatives such as trials, sales sample production, and start-ups
  • Identify project support needs
  • Partner with project leaders on planning and execution
  • Ability to lift up to the maximum of fifty (50) pounds and prepare product for testing
  • Ability to learn and apply new skills quickly
  • Good time-management and organization skills to manage multiple projects
Major Duties/Responsibilities:
  • 80% - Partnering with project leaders to prepare for and perform equipment trials, making samples using equipment and new technologies, and cleaning equipment
  • 10% - Sitting in on developing trial protocols, entering data, analysis, documenting experiments, developing SOPs, and reporting results
  • 10% - Maintain an organized, clean, and sanitary laboratory workspace for the team. Maintain inventory of ingredients and supplies.
  • Maintain regulatory compliance through entry of ingredient/packaging information in the lot tracking database.
Top Three Technical Skills:
  • 40% ability to prepare and execute trials on food equipment in pilot plant
  • 30% ability to develop written documentation and/or communicate orally
  • 30% ability to collaborate with scientists
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/