Food Technician - Pilot Plant Details

Food Technician - Pilot Plant

Impossible Foods - Redwood City, CA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest - if not only - way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better - more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products - and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.

Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
The Pilot Plant Technician is part of the Central Engineering Pilot Plant team. Your team is responsible for executing pilot scale development for new product development, product maintenance and process development. You are directly responsible for the preparation, execution and cleanup of trials. You Will:

• Work within and adhere to GMP requirements for a food manufacturing facility.
• Work with the team to safely operate pilot-scale food production equipment according to process batch records.
• Perform pre- and post-operation sanitation and maintenance on all equipment.
• Use scales, pipettes, and pumps to prepare raw ingredient kits for all batches
• Work in adherence to Good Documentation Practices, completing required documentation for tasks performed.
• Initiate and participate in continuous improvement projects
• Assist with warehouse and process area organization and maintenance.
• Occasionally support off-site plant trials and sampling activities.

You Have:

• Strong work ethic, positive attitude and are a team player
• Ability to lift 50lbs unaided.
• Ability to provide a clean, safe working environment
• Good communication skills
• Strong attention to detail for process, product behavior, and documentation
• Understand of importance of accurate record keeping
• Flexibility to an evolving environment and are able to adapt to change easily
• Willingness and ability to work in cold processing rooms 40°F-50°F.
• Willingness and ability to use email, Google Drive, and other software as needed.
• Previous food & beverage/pharma/chemical/biotech industry experience preferred.
• Previous manufacturing/laboratory/kitchen/pilot plant experience preferred.
• Previous experience working in a GMP environment preferred.
• Previous experience working with hazardous chemicals preferred.
• Previous forklift training preferred.

Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.