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7 days ago
We are a leading provider of innovative food solutions, dedicated to accelerating the transition to a kinder, healthier, alt-protein-first food system. Our mission is to create zero-compromise seafood alternatives that are designed for the average consumer, with a lower carbon footprint and without harming the ocean.
The RoleWe are seeking a highly skilled Food Scientist / Senior Food Scientist to join our fast-growing team. This self-motivated, creative, and results-oriented individual will have an understanding of the physical and chemical properties of food ingredients, specifically, hydrocolloids, starches, plant proteins, and their interactions.
Key Responsibilities- Product Development: Leverage your extensive hands-on experience in food product development to create new meat analog products with improved nutritional quality, flavor, appearance, and texture.
- Research and Development: Work closely with a team of food scientists at our R&D lab & kitchen to develop and modify the texture of our plant-based meat, characterizing and/or understanding the structure/function relationship of proteins, particularly in novel food products and systems.
- Experimentation and Analysis: Design and execute experiments, prepare results for review, and plan tasks with some guidance.
- Hydrocolloids-Starches-Protein Interactions: Create and characterize hydrocolloids-starches-protein interactions.
- Collaboration and Communication: Participate with scientists in the drafting of patents, scientific papers, presentations, and maintain a laboratory notebook, upload data into an online knowledge management system, and present research findings in a succinct, well-organized manner to the team.
- Statistical Analysis: Apply statistical analysis tools to analyze and interpret the data, derive conclusions, and translate them into optimizing the product performance.
- Equipment Maintenance: Maintain and operate a broad array of sample preparation and analytical equipment, including texture analyzer, colorimeter, etc.
- General Laboratory Support: Provide general laboratory support, purchase equipment and supplies, maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area, including routine maintenance & cleaning of equipment, utensils, and work surfaces, and ensure compliance with all safety policies and practices.
- Education: BS in a scientific discipline (materials science, physics or biophysics, chemistry, physical chemistry, biological or chemical engineering, or a related field) with 5+ years of product development experience in a food and/or food ingredient company.
- Experience: Experienced in food product design, including formulation, ingredient functionality and interaction, process design, product scale-up, plant testing, and commercialization.
- Skills: Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a high-performance team, adaptable to evolving scientific and business priorities, willingness to grow in a dynamic environment, and handle constantly evolving objectives.
We offer highly competitive salaries and benefits, paid time off, and more. This position is for our Toronto, Canada location.
We believe that the success of our mission requires diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture as we know that diverse teams build better products and generate better ideas. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
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