Flavor Chemist
Apply NowCompany: Custom Flavors
Location: San Clemente, CA 92672
Description:
Position Purpose: The Flavor Chemist plays a pivotal role in day-to-day operations by working individually and with a team to develop, improve, and duplicate flavors as well as identify process and material improvements. This position will also interact regularly with Operations to advise on scale-up of flavor production.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Skills:
Physical Demands
The physical responsibilities described here must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, bend, as well as talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Must be able to regularly use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and climb stairs. The position requires the ability to occasionally lift, push, or pull office and lab products and supplies up to 25 pounds.
Working conditions
The position works in a lab and office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and filing cabinets, and standard lab equipment such as pipettes, scales, meters and the GC/MS. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.
Travel
Local travel between Custom Flavors' locations is required. Several times per year, air travel to national or regional conventions or customer visits may be required (less than 10% travel).
Position Type / Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time, on-site position. Standard days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm.
Required Education and Experience
Preferred Education and Experience
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Provide technical support for various departments, including:
- Quality - Apply sensory techniques, validate raw materials, investigate discrepancies between production batches and retains.
- Regulatory - Offer input using knowledge of organic, natural WONF, and TTB.
- Production - Advise on processing instructions, packaging, scale up, and improvement of current formulations.
- Procurement - Provide sensory information, advise on possible ingredient replacements to minimize change in flavor due to alternate suppliers or shortages.
- Lead projects related to creating, modifying, or matching flavors based on customer requests.
- Create and document new flavors and formulations based on customer needs.
- Create compounding jobs and sales orders using ERP system to maintain ingredient inventory in R&D.
- Data input for flavor documents such as spec sheet and SDS using ERP system.
- Complete projects in a timely manner and communicate delays to the appropriate personnel.
- Provide technical knowledge and leadership for customer visits and workshops.
- Analyze new flavor formulations and provide organoleptic feedback.
- Participate in tastings and provide directions for applications projects.
- Assist Senior Flavor Chemist with internal and external products and projects.
- As needed, review analytical testing, maintain equipment, and manage formula systems
- Keep knowledge of raw materials, processing techniques, and regulations current.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills:
- Ability to effectively communicate with all colleagues, levels of management, vendors and customers with an emphasis on Manufacturing/Operations familiarity.
- Must be able to use GC/MS and other industry standards for flavor analysis.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to manage concurrent projects.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and applicable standard operating procedures
Physical Demands
The physical responsibilities described here must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, bend, as well as talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Must be able to regularly use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and climb stairs. The position requires the ability to occasionally lift, push, or pull office and lab products and supplies up to 25 pounds.
Working conditions
The position works in a lab and office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and filing cabinets, and standard lab equipment such as pipettes, scales, meters and the GC/MS. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.
Travel
Local travel between Custom Flavors' locations is required. Several times per year, air travel to national or regional conventions or customer visits may be required (less than 10% travel).
Position Type / Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time, on-site position. Standard days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm.
Required Education and Experience
- Certification through Society of Flavor Chemists or comparable experience
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Chemistry, or related field
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in the flavor industry
- At least one year of experience scaling from R&D to Production in the flavor industry
Preferred Education and Experience
- 3 years of experience as a certified flavorist
- Experience in a flavor manufacturing environment
- Supervisory experience is a plus