Your Opportunity as the Senior Technologist, Product Development, Pet R&D
Lead hands-on product development for innovative pet food and snacks. Design test plans, analyze results, and collaborate across teams to bring new products to life. Leverage your technical skills to support initiatives across our labs, pilot plants, and even have opportunities to consult with our Pet facilities and product consumers.
Location: Orrville, OH
Work Arrangements: Hybrid, 60% minimum in office presence and domestic travel up to 30% annually
In this role you will:
Independently develop test plans. Generate sound, accurate and reproducible data working hands-on in various settings; make critical observations.
Summarize key findings, recognize, and report unexpected results, and recommend next steps. Recognize discrepancies and investigate problems with minimal help from resources.
May lead technical readiness for small to medium complexity initiatives.
Communicate results both orally and in writing to supervisor, key project members, and higher levels of management
Independently work across disciplines, functions and with outside vendors
Support the R&D team with additional responsibilities as needed.
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelors degree in Science, Technology, or Engineering
2+ years of product development experience. Open to consider less experience when combined with advanced STEM degree(s)
Demonstrates knowledge and expertise in own discipline/area of expertise; still acquiring higher-level knowledge and skills
Strong organizational, critical thinking and creativity skills
Effective presentation, verbal and written communication skills
Proficient in establishing and adhering to procedures
Work with quality/safety in mind
Ability to work under moderate supervision within guidelines and processes
Strong time management skills
Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:
Previous experience with pet food and/or pet snack formulation and product development
Experience with food processes, e.g. extrusion, baking, or thermal processing
Coursework in nutrition
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Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
