Senior Application Technologist - Beverages

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Participate in flavor application and provide technical expertise to guide operational excellence and improve client delivery systems, according to business goals and EH&S policies. You will be based in Vienna (Austria) and report to the Application Manager. The position will be opened with a 1 year long fix-term contract (maternity cover).

Flavour Application

• Accomplish daily brief-related tasks including flavour selection, product evaluation, and application development
• Lead evaluations of flavours in food applications for briefs, research projects and portfolio evaluations
• Select flavours for projects according to specified requirements (i.e. customer, regulatory, legislation, cost) and suggest improvements for the most common applications
• Identify appropriate flavour delivery systems and technologies for customer projects in specific applications

Knowledge sharing and expertise

• Be a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, flavour creation, and customers for specific applications
• Coach, train, and motivate technicians and technologists

Data maintenance

• Maintain the flavour performance data for the flavour portfolio through evaluation in finished product and capture of profiles

Environmental Health & Safety

• Maintain a safe, clean and organized lab environment following EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines

Professional Experience:

• Polytechnic or B.S.: minimum 4 - 6 years of experience in a food applications lab, production, or related area
• Master's Degree: minimum 2 - 3 years of experience in a food applications lab, production, or related area
• Ph.D.: minimum 0-1 years of experience in a food applications lab, production, or related area

Technical Skills

• Understanding of selected food applications, ingredients, and processes with practical experience in customers' food manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of many of the flavour reactions/interactions in common food products
• Lead selected customer projects
• Translate market trends into innovative products for selected customers
• Instruct technicians and technologists