at Eurogerm USA Inc. in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Eurogerm KB LLC seeks Technical Baker in Hoffman Estates, IL: Work on New Product development such as baked goods breads (artisan breads), croissant, brioche, donuts, cakes, cookies with new dough conditioners or enzyme technologies; Help to improve customers’ products with new ingredient formulations (e.g. increase shelf life with various enzyme blends and natural anti-mold ingredients); Help customers’ troubleshoot product performance issues or product failures at bakery manufacturing plants; Run validation tests at customers’ plants to ensure that results transfer from lab to large scale production runs smoothly following successful research and development tests; and, Complete R&D development projects to replace expensive ingredients with alternative ingredients.
Requirements: High School/GED and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Knowledge of: all types of baked goods and bakery processes (frozen dough, pre-proofed frozen dough, baked frozen, fresh process with short and long fermentation) and of all types of functional ingredients used in bakery formulation (enzymes, hydrocolloids, starches, proteins, oxidizing and reducing agents, anti-mold systems, etc.). Experience with laminated dough (to make croissants, danishes). Master Baker Certification required. National and international travel required approximately 20% of the time to run bakery trials at customers’ plants to validate R&D test results in full scale production lines.
Send resume / cover letter to bkansakar@eurogerm-kb.com ref #018939/00004
