Food Scientist

Role: Product Development Scientist

Location: Emeryville, CA 94608 (3-5 days a week)

Duration: 7 months

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Food science, science, or engineering ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods market
• Working on teams and independently with the guidance of a manager
• Personal drive and organization
• Prioritizing and managing activities
• Planning and executing work plans with some supervision
• Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently (problem solving)
• Applying fundamental technical understanding to interpret and analyze data to reach clear conclusions
• Communicating effectively verbally and in writing, including technical writing
• Putting the consumer at the heart of development activities

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

You will be working at Clif Bar, the leading bar brand in the category. Great learning with experienced developers and best performing team.

You will experience a wide range of projects including:

• Innovation: near term innovation and renovation
• Core maintenance: Resolve quality issues, BCP, Margin and support plant performance improvement, and other duties as assigned
• Making benchtop samples to support development work; shipping and receiving samples and ingredients

• Education:

  • BS in Food Science, Chemical Engineering or related field

   

  Job specific requirements:

  • 1-3 years of experience in related field
  • Strong technical foundation and technical curiosity
  • Participate in cross functional teams to identify and resolve technical issues.
  • Write process specifications that deliver consistent, high-quality products across numerous manufacturing facilities.
  • Excellent written and oral communication