Paragon Laboratories is a leading contract manufacturer of Dietary Supplements in tablet, capsule, and powder forms. For over 50 years, Paragon's top-notch formulators and manufacturing personnel have been improving lives by delivering quality nutritional supplements. The Formulator Scientist is responsible for developing new products, improving current products, addressing manufacturing issues, evaluating of new and alternative raw materials, and seeking cost savings.
Full- Time Position.
Pay Rate: $28.00 - $36.00 per hour.
Responsibilities: Thorough understanding of solid dose product development and manufacturing scale up. Operational understanding of wet and dry granulations, tablet presses, encapsulation machines, ribbon blenders, and V-blender. Develop and make lab samples of custom dietary supplement blends. Interpret customer requests into prototypes, such as great-tasting powdered beverages or tablets designed with various properties. Work with R&D teams, Manufacturing, supply chain, etc. on scale-up and transfer of developed formulations to the plant. Provide customers with technical support on dietary supplement formulations. Maintain proper documentation of product development process and results, and keep equipment logbooks in accordance with R&D guidelines. Comply with company procedural guidelines, laboratory procedures, and safety programs. Requirements: Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, chemistry, food science/technology, or similar. Minimum of 2 years prior experience in a nutritional supplement industry or similar field. Minimum 2 years in working with dietary supplements, pharmaceutical development, or similar. 1-2 years' experience in granulation techniques, processing, property characterization. Ability to formulate nutraceutical and powdered functional food prototypes based on nutritional targets as well as to consumer sensory acceptance. Understanding of GMP manufacturing considerations and requirements. Good interpersonal and presentation skills to share development work within the organization and with customers. Ability to work in physically challenging environment: lift 25 pounds and move up to 50 pounds when working with bulk ingredients, operate pilot scale equipment. Be authorized to work in the United States.
