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At Sensient Technologies, we are experts in science, art, and innovation of color and flavor. We are market savvy and visionary. We are problem solvers, and we will be better with you.
We are looking for an Application Scientist I to join our Food Colors team, which continues leading the natural colors transformation, and where you'll represent cutting-edge solutions, and work with industry-leading customers. Supports projects where product applications are required to offer color solutions to food industry customers and ensures performance, functionality and stability of the new product developments.
This position is full time based in our Alajuela office.
What you’ll do:
- Conducts color application projects with supervision, including determining the most cost-effective solutions and creates new color customized solutions in the formulation system (item code and technical information associated).
- Reports on new product specifications and supports in customer reports and presentations to the Technical Service Manager or Technical team.
- Ensure quality, compliance, and operational excellence by following Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), maintaining laboratory equipment, reporting product specifications, and coordinating with Operations, Regulatory, and Quality teams.
- Scales up and first production supervision to ensure proper industrialization of food colors and runs stability tests for the new product developments of the sub-segment
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in food or chemical engineering or equivalent education.
- One-two years of experience in food industry formulation, product development, or application development dairy, beverages, confectionery, pet food, processed foods, snacks or bakery).
- An enthusiastic, creative, and team centered approach to add to an amazing office environment.
- Fluent in English language.
- Ability to travel to visit customers up to 25% of the time.
What you’ll get:
- An excellent salary, benefit offering and development opportunities.
- A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond.
- An opportunity to collaborate on site full time with a terrific team.
About Sensient:
Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.
Sensient Colors is a leading developer, producer, and supplier of natural and synthetic color systems for customers worldwide. Its high-performance products play a critical role in the manufacture of food and beverages, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals colors and coatings, and colors for agricultural uses, household cleaners and paper products.
Equal opportunity employer.
As a dynamic and diversified global leader, we offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package. For more information, visit our website:
http://www.sensient.com
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in food science or equivalent education.
- Minimum of two years experience in food industry formulation, product development, and application development.
- Experience leading customer application projects and project management experience.
- Fluent in English.
- Ability to travel to visit customers up to 50% of the time.
- Enthusiastic, creative, and team-centered approach.
Sensient Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sensient Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Sensient Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair pay is frequently highlighted as aligning well with job responsibilities, and base compensation is often framed as competitive for the industry. The overall package is commonly characterized as good when considering pay together with benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance are consistently described as comprehensive, with day-one eligibility and strong employer premium cost-sharing noted for U.S. salaried employees. Low premiums are repeatedly emphasized as a differentiator in the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is reinforced by a 401(k) match with immediate vesting and the presence of additional retirement vehicles such as an ESOP, with certain locations also referencing pension arrangements. This stack is presented as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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What We Do
We Bring Life to Products. Our name communicates what we do: Enhance SENSory experiences through specialized ingredIENTs, delivered through proprietary TECHNOLOGIES. Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, essential oils and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, colors, natural ingredients, and extracts. The Company’s customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world’s best-known brands. Sensient has some 75 operational sites in 35 countries and customers in more than 150 countries worldwide. Learn more about how Sensient can help you discover your next color, flavor and specialty solutions at www.sensient.com
