Essential Oils Development Chemist

Essential Oils Development Chemist

Givaudan

Caronno Pertusella, Italy

As an Engineer R&D Essential Oils in Caronno Pertusella (Milan) you will conduct flavor application and provide technical expertise to lead and establish successful cooperation with customers, according to our goals and EH&S policies.

Reporting to the Site Operations Head, you will:

• Be an expert of Essential oils to perform formulation and manage the adjustments due to raw material variation or shortages, working with teams to ensure orders are delivered on time for customers;
• Assist QC with rectifications and rework instructions on batches that are out of specifications;
• Advice suitability of raw materials for GFI blends to QC when needed;
• Complete daily brief-related tasks and apply knowledge during the flavor selection, evaluation and application development;
• Lead evaluations of flavors in food applications for briefs, research projects and portfolio evaluations;
• Select flavors for projects according to specified requirements (i.e. customer, regulatory, legislation, cost) and suggest improvements for the most common applications;
• Identify appropriate flavor delivery systems and technologies for customer projects in specific applications.

Knowledge sharing and expertise:

• Be a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, flavor creation, and customers for specific applications;
• Coach, train, and motivate technicians and technologists;
• Maintain relationships with a limited number of customers; able to gain their trust and respect.

Data maintenance:

• Maintain the data for the Ingredient portfolio GFI through evaluation in finished product and capture of profiles.

Environmental Health & Safety:

• Maintain a safe, clean and organized lab environment observing EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines.

Academic Background:

• B.S. or Master's Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology or Ph.D. in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology.

Professional Experience:

• With B.S.: minimum 7 - 9 years of experience in a food/flavor applications lab, production, or related area;
• With Master's Degree: minimum 4 - 6 years of experience in a food/flavor applications lab, production, or related area;
• With Ph.D.: minimum 2 - 3 years of experience in a food/flavor applications lab, production, or related area.

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