SR FOOD TECHNOLOGIST - BEVERAGES

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are looking to hire a Beverage Food Technologist in a Hybrid (60/40) capacity for our site in Mexico. This is 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Please submit your CV in English.

What We Bring To The Table:

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Competitive compensation

• Career growth opportunities

• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

• We prioritize our communities and the planet we share. We are proud to be awarded as a Diversity Inc. Top 50 company for Diversity and have multiple Sustainability awards (ranking #22 in the World and #1 in Food Products)

Description:

• Developing flavor applications for beverages aligned with the company’s strategies, industry standards and practices to showcase and promote the sale of McCormick flavors.
• Product Development activities may include product/ingredient research, bench top flavor application development, samples preparation, sample labeling, product tasting and commercialization activities, and capable of understanding the customer’s procedures for beverage manufacturing or flavor application.
• Completes moderately difficult assignments through the application of a broad knowledge of the principles, practices and procedures inherent to beverages design and manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

• Developing beverage flavor application prototypes for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, aligned with current industry standards, practices and procedures, investigating, and assessing new ingredients and technologies.
• Apply and evaluate flavors in the proper developed bases or customer bases, to determine its best performance, define and propose adjustments to existing formulas.
• Prepare flavor applications samples as requested, for team evaluation or customer presentations and prepare reports, files, sample shipments and perform oral presentations.
• Beverage’s applications laboratory equipment operation, control, upgrade, and maintenance.
• Creation and maintenance of the laboratory broad raw materials supply.
• Keeping contact and networking with other beverage scientists of the Business Units to upgrade the laboratory outcome on a regular basis.

Requirements:

• Completed Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, or related field.
• Strong proffesional background in beverage industrial formulation or development. Partial experience time in beverages production or flavor applications in a recognized flavor company would be acceptable.
• Ability to interpret data, solve complex problems with incomplete information and to manage risk in making critical decisions in specific /internal cases.
• Good computer skills including intermediate level of knowledge of Microsoft programs, Word, Power Point and Excel. MTeams and SAP/ERP.
• Good understanding of chemicals terminology and general handling information.
• Excellent organizational project management and problem-solving skills, and ability to deal with changing priorities and varying customer needs.
• Good understanding of flavor science and technology.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).

As an Equal Opportunities employer, McCormick is committed to a diverse workforce.