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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE.    PRODUCTS.   CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

Job Purpose and Overview

The Food Scientist II leads product development across all stages of the product life cycle, from concept through commercialization for bakery products. Responsible for evaluating ingredients and formulation across a variety of projects, such as new products, line extensions, quality improvements, cost reductions, or pipeline innovation. Position may oversee and provide guidance for junior team members and interns. 

Work Environment & Travel: This position is on-site in Louisville, KY, and a moderate amount of travel (up to 25%) will be required to support customers and products at other sites. Special assignments will be available to assist with career growth opportunities. 

What will you do as a Food Scientist II at Dawn Foods? 

• With minimal supervision, develops product formulations, plans, and executes scientific experiments using established laboratory/pilot plant/operations methods. Interprets results using data/statistical analysis and translates into possible solutions. 

• Investigate customer complaints, conduct root cause analysis, provide short-term solutions, and identify opportunities for improvement to develop long-term sustainable solutions. 

• Leverages scientific approaches and analytical methods to accelerate learning, identify risks, and build contingency plans to advance projects.  

• Executes pilot lab runs, consumer tests, plant trials, and validation trials to scale up product solutions.  

• Builds strong cross-functional relationships both within the R&D community as well as externally with Marketing, Insights, Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Regulatory to collaboratively solve problems. 

• Demonstrate proficiency with the Dawn specification system and write product, ingredient, and process specs. Strong documentation skills and ensures all ingredients and finished goods meet customer, internal, and FDA requirements.  

• Demonstrates the "Dawn Values" of Team Dawn and Supports the Circle of Excellence. 

• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested. 

What Does It Take to be a Food Scientist II at Dawn Foods?  

 Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.    

• A bachelor’s degree in food science, food engineering, or a related science field, and 3-5 years of work experience in a food ingredient facility, or 9 years of relevant work experience in lieu of the bachelor’s degree. 

• Experience interfacing with manufacturing teams 

• Experience in product scale-up from design to manufacturing 

• Strong scientific and problem-solving skills 

• Passion for bakery products and product development  

Preferred qualifications  

• A master’s degree in food science 

• Six Sigma Green Belt certification 

• SAP and Optiva software experience 

Physical Demands & Work Environment 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

• The normal setting for this job is an office environment or a work-from-home office with up to 25% travel.

Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here. 

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.” 

About Our Benefits 

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits. 

Compensation Range:

$78,370 - $122,260 with bonus incentive.

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An Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.

Requisition ID: 36989