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Join Our Team at Monogram Foods!

Are you passionate about ensuring food safety and quality in a fast-paced, innovative environment? Do you thrive on leading transformative initiatives and inspiring teams to achieve excellence? If so, Monogram Foods invites you to embark on a rewarding career journey with us!

At Monogram Foods, we’re not just creating food products, we’re crafting experiences that bring families together. Since 2004, we’ve been at the forefront of food manufacturing, delivering exceptional products like meat snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, bacon, USDA baked goods, and more. With 12 state-of-the-art facilities across six states, we’re proud to be a leader in co-manufacturing, private label, and food service channels.

 When you join Monogram Foods, you join a family of over 4,000 talented individuals dedicated to innovation, teamwork, and excellence.

At our Martinsville, VA you can find our team members hard at work producing your favorite jerky, meat sticks, pickled protein snacks and portable snacks!
Why Choose Monogram Foods?

• Innovation at the Core: Collaborate on cutting-edge food solutions that set industry benchmarks.
• Career Advancement: With our rapid growth and diverse product lines, you’ll have endless opportunities to develop and excel.
• Culture of Collaboration: Be part of a supportive team that values your contributions and celebrates your successes.
• Competitive Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive pay, health coverage, retirement plans, and professional development programs.

Your Role:

The Research and Development Food Scientist is expected to serve as a technical services consultant, developing and supporting the commercialization of new products from the conception stage through first production.

The qualified individual should have a strong knowledge of food science and product development and a good understanding of how ingredients interact with one another. Good attention to detail and organizational skills are necessary.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice to support the commercialization of new products.
• Make bench samples with new and existing formulations within customer parameters and capabilities of the plants.
• Support, plan, and lead plant trials of new products and first productions, managing and collaborating with customers regarding expectations and results and coordinating as necessary with internal team members.
• Oversee the shipping of bench, finished goods, and raw material samples internally and to customers as required.
• Ensure that active finished good production specification documents are created and updated.
• Manage the change controls of new raw materials.
• Provide educated information to the team as required.
• Support multiple plants as requested for varying needs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

NOTE: This list presents only the principal duties of the position and is not intended to be comprehensive. The duties and responsibilities listed above may be changed or supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Culinary Arts, Food Science, or a related field is required.
• Preferred Education: HACCP training is preferred.
• Preferred Experience: Five or more years of product development experience.

Competencies and Skills

• Valid, current driver’s license is required.
• Knowledge of food safety procedures and protocols.
• Technical knowledge of ingredient interactions and processing systems. 
• Knowledge of the product development cycle. 
• Ability to develop new products and troubleshoot existing items.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to interact with people at all levels of the organization.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in using a variety of computer software.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to work with precision. 
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines.
• Sound judgment
• Good customer service skills.
• Must be 18 years or older.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time in front of a computer.
• Ability to stand and move about the laboratory for prolonged periods.
• Ability to perform physical activities, such as, but not limited to, lifting items of up to 40 lbs. unassisted, bending, standing, climbing or walking.
• Visual and hearing acuity.

NOTE: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.