FUTURE DIFFERENCE MAKERS WANTED!
At CuliNEX, we nourish a brighter future through food innovation by developing delicious, clean label foods that create a better planet, healthier people, and happier communities. We continue to grow. And while we continue to add like-minded people and passionate food professionals to our team, we never forget our roots. We’re a group of friends who think of our place more as a boutique than your typical office.
Are you Hungry, Humble and Smart? If so, then CuliNEX may be the place for you! These are the core requirements for every employee at our company. If you are looking to accelerate your career in culinary innovation and food product development, let’s start the conversation today.
Our business is growing, and we have an immediate need for a Product Developer/Culinologist to join our team. We prefer a Culinary + Food Science, or Food Science program graduate.
About you
We are seeking a dynamic and friendly teammate to help create food innovation for our broad client bases. This unique food product development role is not limited by a brand’s portfolio of foods but provides a unique opportunity to learn an expansive food category and applications from frozen, refrigerated, shelf stable, beverages, meals, seafood, dressings/sauces, baked goods and so much more.
Our perfect candidate is extremely well organized, loves a good challenge, and looks for good people to work with and learn from. The ideal candidate will have strong people skills and a willingness to jump in and help in multiple areas without losing sight of priorities. An ability to deliver on tight deadlines while ensuring day-to-day tasks are managed appropriately. A sense of humor combined with a sense of pride in your work and a commitment to doing your part to enable the team to succeed. Tech savvy, you can work well with Microsoft's full suite of products including Office 365, Teams, and SharePoint as well as a wide variety of other software products.
Our Company
Since 2005, CuliNEX has been the industry’s premier consulting firm providing food innovation and product development services focused on clean label food products. While maintaining our commitment to continuous learning, we exceed our client’s business goals by developing delicious, clean label foods that create a better planet, healthier people, and happier communities.
What We Do
We’re passionate about creating great tasting, wholesome food. We specialize in assisting brand owners, food manufacturers, ingredient suppliers and retailers with achieving their growth goals by bringing successful products to market. Our expertise covers a wide variety of food product categories including frozen, refrigerated and shelf stable products, seafood, bakery goods, soups and sauces, dairy products, grains, produce and snack items.
Job Summary and Mission
This job contributes to CuliNEX’ success by ensuring the successful execution and implementation of consulting services contracts to meet project deliverables and client expectations, monitoring and balancing labor utilization, and the execution of project timelines and deliverables. The Developer must exhibit CuliNEX Core Competencies and support its Core Values.
This position is a hybrid role with benchwork to be completed while on premises in our Tukwila, WA test kitchen up to four days per week with limited work that can be completed remotely when possible.
Summary of Key Responsibilities
Culinologists are responsible for carrying out project tasks under the direction of the Project Manager and Development Leader. They participate with CuliNEX project teams to source ingredients, execute benchtop development, produce food samples, and deliver on client objectives.
Essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
Communication
Formulation
Ideation and Concept development
Kitchen Management
Ingredient Procurement
Shipping
Special Tasks
Education and Experience
Certifications, Licenses & Memberships (Recommended)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Physical Work Abilities and Requirements
As a Culinologist you will be working in both a commercial kitchen and a typical office environment. The following physical abilities and requirements are essential for this role:
Commercial Kitchen Environment:
Office Environment:
General Requirements: