R&D Specialist

We are looking for a Meat Science Student/Graduate to join our team in Claremont, NH to help create new products for customer specific requests or improve current products; while utilizing the most up to date science and technology to improve the quality and consistency of the facilities existing products, through education of employees, testing of product, conducting shelf-life studies, and reacting to trends of the facility. 

• Identify scope of project
  • type of project, customer or internal requirements, any special requirements or time frames.
• Maintain accurate and organized records of each test from conception to full scale production.
• Be actively involved in the production environment for each stage from the kitchen processing through creating sample labels, and shipping to customer.
• Be the main point of contact to the customer, once the introduction has been made.
• Conduct organoleptic tastings to move in the appropriate direction to achieve the desired results.
• Communicate with all relevant employees or customers for each stage of the process from kitchen processing through shipping of the first order.
  • Obtaining signed acknowledgement sheets from each department involved prior to the first production run.
• Follow up with customer after each test batch, and first production batch.
• Ensure all timelines are met, or communicated to the appropriate people if there are delays.
• Work directly with QA department to ensure all recipes, and label claims meet all regulatory and food safety requirements.