Manager, Baking Scientist

Joining King’s Hawaiian makes you part of our `ohana (family). We are a family-owned business for over seventy years, respecting our roots while thinking about our future as we continue to grow and care for our customers and the communities we serve. Our `ohana members build an environment of inclusivity as they freely collaborate, pursue learning through curiosity, and explore innovation as critical thinkers. Beyond that, we are also passionate about supporting the long-term health and well-being of our employees and their families. If you’re excited to rise with our team, come and join our `ohana!

Working under general supervision of the VP of Food Science, the Manager, Baking Scientist is an idealist, researcher, designer, and builder. This role is responsible for the design and execution of plant level processing development, continuous improvement, and research and development for the Food Science department. This role will shepherd and manage plant trials for line extensions, new product testing, ingredient testing, equipment testing to improve product quality, and serve as a technical liaison for product improvement in production. Leads improvement projects associated with company strategic goals in the areas of focus on process improvement, increased efficiency, optimization of total output capacity, and facility/product line expansion. This position will coordinate closely with the Food Science Product Development team, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Sourcing/Supply Chain, and Plant Operations to execute goals.

 

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage scale up trials of products and work closely with Production leaders to train on process.
• Manages and tracks all New Product Development, Continuous Improvement, and Sourcing projects at once, while ensuring deadlines are met.
• Manage and work in collaboration with Engineering team on production line design, equipment testing, factory acceptance testing, and site acceptance testing.
• Develop new recipes for International markets and lead the scale up production to painting the world orange.
• Partner with marketing and consumer research to co-create the innovation/renovation pipeline for bread and buns to achieve business objectives.
• Testing sensory evaluations to assess product quality and attribute changes when exploring new trends.
• Serve as a product development contact with Sales, Customers, and Operations.
• Work closely with King’s ingredient and packaging suppliers on the technical characteristics of King’s materials and troubleshoot ingredient performance.
• Test and ensure food concepts are shelf stable and food safe.  Work with 3rd party labs to test and analyze products.
• Develop and maintain FDA and USDA food product labeling that complies with regulatory requirements and/or customer requirements.
• Manage numerous projects simultaneously.
• Creatively solve technical problems in a rapid, efficient manner.
• Collaborate and team up with third party manufacturing facilities to scale up and test products for commercialization.
• Work along with packaging engineers on product shelf life improvements.
• Collaborate with Food Scientist, Production, Engineering, QA, and Procurement to line trial new and alternate sourced ingredients, line trial new product and line extension products, in compliance with regulatory, food safety and quality requirements.
• Works closely with our ingredient and packaging suppliers on the technical characteristics of our materials and troubleshooting of ingredient performance.
• Collaborates with Operations and Engineering to design experiments and test hypothesis for new equipment technologies to improve our product quality, production process, and efficiencies.
• Troubleshoot technology and ingredient issues when quality problems arise. Provide technical expertise for manufacturing changes, deviations, root cause analysis and troubleshooting. Work collaboratively with internal teams as needed.
• Activities of multiple projects simultaneously.
• Leads, Manages and tracks all projects at once, while ensuring deadlines are met with project team.
• Organize, and lead technical discussions to support process development and testing timelines.
• Provide training and guides to production employees on all the Baking Science Curriculum.
• Review measured produced results and recommended corrective action where indicated.
• Evaluate and recommend modifications as required for new production process and procedures.
• Works directly with QA to help facility the sampling, analytical testing, sensory, and data collection of results.
• Review and interpret technical data generated by the analytical instrumentation and communicate actionable recommendations to teams.
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