Job Description
Full- Time Position.
Pay Rate: $24.00 - $30.00 per hour.
- Thorough understanding of solid dose product development and manufacturing scale up.
- Operational understanding of wet and dry granulations, tablet presses, encapsulation machines, ribbon blenders, and V-blender.
- Develop and make lab samples of custom dietary supplement blends.
- Interpret customer requests into prototypes, such as great-tasting powdered beverages or tablets designed with various properties.
- Work with R&D teams, Manufacturing, supply chain, etc. on scale-up and transfer of developed formulations to the plant.
- Provide customers with technical support on dietary supplement formulations.
- Maintain proper documentation of product development process and results, and keep equipment logbooks in accordance with R&D guidelines.
- Comply with company procedural guidelines, laboratory procedures, and safety programs.
- Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, chemistry, food science/technology, or similar.
- Minimum of 2 years prior experience in a nutritional supplement industry or similar field.
- Minimum 2 years in working with dietary supplements, pharmaceutical development, or similar.
- 1-2 years’ experience in granulation techniques, processing, property characterization.
- Ability to formulate nutraceutical and powdered functional food prototypes based on nutritional targets as well as to consumer sensory acceptance.
- Understanding of GMP manufacturing considerations and requirements.
- Good interpersonal and presentation skills to share development work within the organization and with customers.
- Ability to work in physically challenging environment: lift 25 pounds and move up to 50 pounds when working with bulk ingredients, operate pilot scale equipment.
- Be authorized to work in the United States.