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Form of work- Interact with team to ensure a clear understanding of project timelines, test scheduling, product tracking, and other deliverables. Attend project meetings as needed.
- Support panel preparation including making up references and other sample preparation, setting up the panel rooms for panel training, serving references/samples and preparing ad hoc samples as needed.
- Support Sensory Test execution: Set up of lab, test areas, data collection software; prep and serve samples, provide verbal instructions to panelists, clean and reset test areas.
- Maintain a clean and sanitized lab, storage, and testing environment/equipment by supporting glassware washing, cleaning, and sorting and storing glassware as well as laundry; Responsible for keeping iPads and laptops up to date as needed.
- Tracking inventory of supplies for testing and execution, ordering supplies as needed or going shopping to procure supplies; ensuring there are scanned receipts for all items. Communicating with the client in reference to shipping/receiving and product returns.
- Develop and enhance skills in trained consumer sensory panel leadership in training, calibration, and testing; on-the-job training will be provided.
- Assist team in executing panel performance measurement plan including but not limited to implementing calibration/validation exercises and providing panelists performance feedback.
- Support study reporting with data entry, graphing, photographing samples, and editing presentations as needed.
- Support special projects including, but not limited to, product screening, coordinating department meetings, setting up new procedures and documenting protocols.
- Actively participate on technical team offering suggestions, making recommendations and assuming responsibility as needed.
- Demonstrated laboratory experience and knowledge of lab best practices e.g., as Lab Technician or completion of college/university laboratory courses.
- Must be comfortable working with chemical solutions, preparing stock solutions and performing dilutions as needed.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote
- Sensory Data collections software experience preferred (e.g., RedJade, Compusense, FIZZ, EyeQuestion, etc.)
- Takes initiative in technical problem solving.
- Good communication skills, both written and oral
- Able to work autonomously and under pressure.
- Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation: Ability to drive to pick up samples from other R&D locations and shop supplies for sensory panels.
- Ability to work and stand for long periods of time in a lab environment
- Ability to lift weights up to 30 lbs.
- Ability to use computer keyboard
- Visual ability to read computer monitor and precise measurements
About the company
Over the past four decades, Curion has provided world-class quantitative and qualitative product and packaging insights. Applying proven industry-leading, innovative methods to service over 65% of Global 100 companies, Curion works with its clients to determine not only which products consumers like, but why they are liked and how. As a result, Curion clients mitigate the risk of marketplace failure by ensuring that only products of quality and character will be introduced to the market, providing repeatable delight to their consumers. Curion accomplishes this with its innovative approaches, sensory processes, state-of-the-art facilities, and world-class data insights. Curion's consumer database is representative of consumers across the US, with Consumer Centers in the Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco metropolitan areas. The result of a merger between Q Research Solutions and Tragon Corp., and the acquisitions of PVR Research and Ravel Research, Curion brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the consumer science industries.
