Food Scientist/Technologist II

New Bern, NC / Full-time

Your responsibilities

Food Scientist/Technologist IIassists, performs and directs operations of the Application Lab. This involves leading and coaching lab technicians through daily testing, defining and organizing test schedules, assuring that test procedures and results are documented and interpreting results as required for engineering or marketing understanding. Additionally, collaborating with engineers to provide design input based on testing to maximize cooking performance and the overall consumer experience. These positions function within the Design Engineering Department which is comprised of a team of associates in which the rapid development of highly featured, high value products is required. The department is comprised of three sections: New Product Development, Sustaining Engineering, and Labs and Approvals. New products are developed through concurrent engineering practices, requiring department members to understand critical inter-relationships between different departments. The ability to make sound design decisions based on product knowledge and manufacturing processes is key. This position requires an individual to be self-motivated, working with minimal supervision, while achieving high quality end results.

Establish lab test plans, prepare test requests, with required documentation, for work in application lab, conduct required testing and prepare and report the final results and conclusions.

Conducts performance testing of cooking products, analyzes test data, and writes comprehensive reports while developing products and competitive benchmark tests

Monitors documentation of test units and test results.

Develops cooking profile parameters (PID and 2 point) and monitors validation of developed profiles

Determines convection baffle designs based on air flow patterns

Writes requirements during project planning cycles

Contributes to design and use of oven accessories

Provides feedback to relevant teams concerning overall user experience

Use various @types of equipment (thermocouples, digital scales, data acquisition programs, LabView, National Instruments, pH meters, water activity meter, gas flow meters, color measurement systems, microwave leakage detector) to evaluate product function.

Participates on Product Development Core Teams

Collaborates with international engineering teams to implement global development goals

Support production with on-line troubleshooting and de-bugging during pilot and after release to production.

Supports technical service in determining various causes and fixes of problems reported from the field

Debug issues and determine root cause failure analysis

Assists in training and onboarding of new hires

Work with others in projects/design reviews using experience and knowledge gained

Presents testing data to global colleagues and participates on specialized global teams (i.e. Gas Network)

Writes test procedures, data collection sheets and test protocol

Performs work with high degree of latitude

Serves as a mentor/coach for lab technicians

BSH Home Appliances Corporation

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