Applications Technician - R&D Snacks
Alsip, IL 60803 - Griffith Foods Headquarters, One Griffith Center, Alsip, Illinois, United States of America Req #3604
Monday, February 10, 2025
Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products. We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world. Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers. While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world's best-known companies.
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Location: Alsip, IL
Summary: To provide support to R&D Scientists and teams with the necessary technical service and support to fulfill our purpose and achieve business plan goals.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Prepare sample blends and finished products for internal and external review.
- Prepare and package sample shipments.
- Prepare food finished products for sensory panels and supports panel execution as needed.
- Provide necessary technical service for Griffith Foods R&D Scientists.
- Provide feedback to the Director, Manager or Scientist on any operational issue or troubleshooting opportunity on blends or finished product.
- Manage multiple priorities and timelines at the direction of team or project manager, Director, Manager or Scientist.
- Work as a team member and independently to solve problems, suggest improvements, and support other teams as needed.
- Assess and maintain R&D laboratory ingredient inventory by retrieving ingredients from Samples, providing appropriate label designation, maintaining approved ingredients, and removing obsolete or eliminated materials. Contact Samples, supplier, customer, or Scientist when additional materials are needed.
- Work efficiently within Griffith Foods information systems.
- Use technical training and skills in weighing liquid and powder ingredients accurately on lab and analytical scales.
- Track incoming samples and materials. Assigns Griffith Food's lot numbers.
- Maintain a clean working environment by washing and sanitizing workstation, equipment, and surrounding area.
- Adhere to all department procedures, GLP's and GMP's.
- Maintain R&D storage areas, cabinets, bunker, balcony, freezers, and coolers.
- Participate in Descriptive Sensory Panels and Difference from Control Panels upon completion of official training program.
- Effectively communicate with individuals and small groups.
Qualifications:
- High School diploma or General Education Degree (GED).
- Experience with food product preparation experience.
- Detailed oriented and excellent team membership.
- Understand the fundamentals of cooking, basic math, multitasking and takes and applies direction and learnings.
- Energetic and can think beyond a single task, proactive thinker.
- Flexibility is necessary; benchwork is not repetitive, constantly changing daily and throughout the day.
- Frequently required to stand and work, as well as reach for and lift objects up to fifty pounds.
- Basic computer skills; understand or be able to learn how to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and various other computer systems.
Benefits for this role include Medical, Rx, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts, EAP, Health Advocacy, Financial Planning, Parental Leave, Care.com, Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance, Education Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement, Safety Reimbursement, Lifestyle Spending Account, Group Life & AD&D, Voluntary Life Insurance, Short Term & Long Term Disability, 401(k) Plan with Company Match, ESOP, PTO, Holiday's & Leaves, Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, Home & Auto Insurance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Long Term Care + Life Insurance & Legal Assistance. There is also a potential for a discretionary bonus, this bonus is based on personal & company performance and is not a guaranteed bonus plan.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic or information, AIDS or HIV status, order of protection status, marital status, military or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, participation in benefit programs, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
In carrying out our commitment to equal employment opportunity, Griffith Foods will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship, safety, and/or health risk. Applicants and employees requiring reasonable accommodations must notify Human Resources.
Other details
- Job Family Product Development
- Job Function Commercial
- Pay Type Salary
- Min Hiring Rate $49,000.00
- Max Hiring Rate $60,000.00
- Travel Required No
- Required Education High School