Quality Control Technician

Our Metrowest client is looking for a full time contract Quality Control/Testing Specialist with 3+ years experience working in beverage industry. This position is 100% onsite in the Greater Boston area and looking to start immediately and go until end of year. For this role, you must have education or experience in Food Science/Technology, Culinology, Culinary, or related fields.

Day in the life:

Partnering with Product Development leads & Manager of Beverage Science to help with the successful product launches of new and cutting-edge products.

Aiding with technical needs through:

-Assisting with product management activities for new product launches, product improvements, optimizations, and line extensions

-Executing beverage and ingredient analysis including pH, TA, Brix and Flashpoint

-Assisting in the creation & development of beverage formulations, including bench top beverage development and formula creation

-Coordinating and executing consumer testing with sensory evaluation and report-out of findings to the team

-Working cross functionally to establish value engineering and cost down initiatives

-Managing internal technical testing and stability testing for all products in development

-KPI testing/product definition/spec setting

-Support claims substantiation process for new product launches

-Sample management and coordination and for retailer meeting needs

-Coordination and execution of consumer research activities with internal and external testers in collaboration with Consumer Insights team

-Tracking of findings and action items from consumer research and product reviews