Color Product Developer Technologist

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Summary

Provides technical support to sales, marketing, and research teams to enable a better understanding of the needs and requirements of current and potential customers. Participates in the formulation and development of new products.

Essential Functions

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

• Provides technical and application support to the sales team by making product presentations, application data, and generating data for technical data sheets.

• Conducts market research to identify and produce samples of applications for new and existing products.

• Participates in the development of new products and experimental blends using benchtop and pilot equipment.

• Performs routine analysis of lab samples utilizing appropriate distillation. Titrimetric, colormetric, and instrumental methods supporting product development.

• Provides technical assistance to customers by performing application experiments for customer specific projects and strategic partners.

• Works to continuously refine and develop new analytical methods to accurately define the features and benefits of our products.

• Participates in interdepartmental planning and customer interaction to maximize California Natural Color’s profits and long term viability.

• Contributes to the Continuous Improvement Program.

• Maintains satisfactory attendance, to include timeliness.

• Responsible for understanding and complying with applicable quality, environmental and safety regulatory considerations. If accountable for the work of others, responsible for ensuring their understanding and compliance.

Essential Functions Standard

• Exhibits Intrapreneurship and Ownership behaviors:

• Intrapreneurship is entrepreneurship in an established company: behaviors that include thinking boldly, taking appropriate risks, learning from mistakes, showing initiative, and encouraging and reinforcing innovation.

• Ownership refers to behaviors that include setting high expectations, driving candid discussion, and holding self and others accountable.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• N/A

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate.

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology, Chemistry, Enology, Biochemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Chemical Engineering, Food Processing, or Food Science.

• Required to work overtime when necessary.

• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology, Chemistry, Enology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Food Processing, or Food Science plus 2 years of laboratory food and beverage research experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility or Master’s degree in Food Technology, Chemistry, Enology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Food Processing, or Food Science

• Experience with colors from natural sources in a diverse range of applications.

• Skilled in reading, analyzing and interpreting common scientific and technical journals.

• Skilled in responding to common inquiries or complaints from customers and regulatory agencies.

• Skilled in effectively presenting information to top management.

• Skilled in defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts and drawing solid conclusions.

• Intermediate skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.

• Experience interacting with all levels and functions within the company.

Physical Demands

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will frequently be required to stand; walk; sit. The employee will occasionally be required to use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will occasionally be exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions, extreme heat and cold (non-weather), risk of electrical shock; vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Compensation :

• Set rate listed as $24.18 - $36.30/hour. 
• Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by factors such as the education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Perks & Benefits:

• This position includes a competitive benefits package.
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Gallo does not sponsor for employment based visas for this position now or in the future.

Application Window Expected to Close on: 5/18/24

This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting and requires working on-site with no telecommuting option. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.

Recruiter - Makaela Swenson 

Requisition ID: 104344 

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Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibit discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off-duty use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).

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