R&D Technician

Job No: NP235
Location: Richmond, BC

 About The Opportunity

Responsible for scaling ingredients, preparing formulations, and aiding R&D Food Scientists; conducting standard tests on product samples to ensure compliance with specifications; performing calibrations on analytical equipment; cleaning and maintaining R&D lab and work environment; providing nutrition facts and ingredient declarations; and conducting shelf-life testing.

Critical outcomes for this role include:

Assists in keeping Nature's Path on the leading edge of new product development:

  • Scales ingredients, prepares formulations, and aids R&D Food Scientists.
  • Revises formulas in Genesis as required.
  • Conducts standard tests on product samples to ensure compliance with specifications such as color, moisture, dimensions, Aw, & viscosity measurements.
  • Researches new and current raw materials and applications.
  • Performs calibrations, and/or verifications to ensure accuracy of analytical equipment.

 Ensures operational standards for quality, cost, lean manufacture, food safety, and sustainability:

  • Organizes and conducts shelf life testing, records and communicates results.
  • Maintains a clean and orderly work environment in the R&D lab as well with tools and equipment used.
  • Manages the inventory of raw materials and supplies in the R&D lab.
  • Interacts with Regulatory, Quality and Supply Chain by providing updated information as required.
  • Provides nutrition facts, ingredient declaration, package weight, serving size, and other relevant packaging information.
  • Interacts with Specifications Coordinator on finished goods specifications on new products and revised ingredients

 Assists in the assurance of customer satisfaction with quality, consistent products:

  • Properly packages and ships product samples to customers.
  • Obtains product samples as required.

 

Success in this role will require:

Education

  • Bachelor degree in Food Science, or related degree, from a recognized university or college with relevant food science work experience.

 

Experience

  • Two years' experience or training in Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology, or Quality Assurance or any other related fields.
  • Experience in a product development lab, pilot plant, quality assurance function in the food industry.
  • Knowledge of GMP's and HACCP.
  • Proficiency with MS Office Suite, including Excel.
  • Effective interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Must be able to work flexible hours if needed.

  

 

 

Upon joining Nature's Path, you will become part of a vibrant team that contributes to bringing healthy, organic food to the world in a sustainable way. At Nature’s Path, we follow 5 core competencies and, as a result, strive to build a culture that is: performance driven, always improving, team focused, honourable and respectful, and sustainably and socially conscious.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Nature’s Path Foods; candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by Nature’s Path.

 

About Nature's Path

Nature's Path is a sustainably-driven, deliciously-healthy organic food company that believes in "leaving the earth better than we found it". At Nature's Path, we believe in the idea that you can come to work, and help make the world a better place in the same day. Nature's Path has received numerous awards such as the Greenest Employer award, BC's Top Employers award, and Financial Post's Ten Best Companies to work for in Canada!

As a family-run, privately-owned company with locations in Canada and the U.S., our company was founded with strong entrepreneurial spirit and mission to leave the Earth better than we found it, which has become part of everything we do. Since our establishment in 1985, we have expanded to employ a team of over 600 employees in U.S. and Canada! Our company's innovative brands include Nature's Path, Love Crunch, Envirokidz and Que Pasa.

Our goal is to be a trusted name for quality organic foods in every home, socially responsible, environmentally sustainable and financially viable. We believe that everyone should have access to delicious food that is both good for people and the planet. If you share our vision, please explore our opportunities and take the path to a new and exciting career! Visit Nature's Path online at www.naturespath.com, join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

 

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