Food Scientist and Technologist

Average Salary
$61,780
$36,290
$126,770
Degree Requirements
Bachelor's Degree
Career Focus

What’s in our food, and how do we safely process, package, preserve, store and distribute it? Food scientists find the answers for us, helping our food taste good, and making sure it’s good for you. By understanding foods’ composition, food scientists lead the effort in securing our health alongside our food supply.

Also known as: Food and Drug Research Scientist, Food Chemist, Food Technologist, Product Development Scientist, Quality Control Inspector, Research Chef, Research Food Technologist, Research Scientist, Seafood Technology Specialist
Instructing
Learning Strategies
Personnel Management
Mathematics
Monitoring
Negotiation
Persuasion
Quality Control Analysis
Science
Social Perceptiveness
Systems Analysis
Systems Evaluation
Make recommendations to improve food, such as chemical composition, flavor, color, texture, nutritional value and convenience
Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing and delivering foods
Study the structural and compositional changes that foods undergo in storage and processing
Test products for flavor, texture, color, nutritional content and government and industry standards compliance
Collaborate with process engineers, plant operators, flavor experts and packaging and marketing specialists to develop products
Develop food standards, safety and sanitary regulations and waste management and water supply specifications
Inspect food processing areas to ensure compliance with government regulations and sanitation, safety, quality and waste management standards

Every time a student searches the web, a nurse updates patient records or a farmer checks the weather forecast, they generate data. Data curators use their deep understanding of data applications to help businesses, organizations and IT professionals establish common goals and utilize this data to accomplish them. With more sophisticated ways to leverage the huge amounts of information we create, data curators help us become more efficient, informed and productive.

Also known as: Content Curator, Menu Curator (Data Entry), Data Manager
Instructing
Mathematics
Monitoring
Operation Monitoring
Operations Analysis
Programming
Speaking
Systems Analysis
Systems Evaluation
Troubleshooting
Organize and source data for analysis
Apply transformations and blend data from several sources
Customize data for different analytical tasks
Assign analytical tasks to data engineers/scientists, providing all necessary requirements for completion
Advise and educate IT professionals about how businesses use data, allowing them to better conduct analysis
Maintaining efficient data organization over time for future use
Meet Topher
Data Scientist
United Animal Health
FA-Data-Curator
"With agbioscience there's going to be challenges. There's going to be strategy. You're constantly using technology. There isn't a moment that goes by that I'm not using some type of platform like a mobile device or trying to find a way to get mobile into someone's hands. With different technologies that are coming out every day you have to learn it, you have to research it. It's exciting because you get up every day and you go, okay, what's going to be new today? What's going to be out there today that I didn't know about yesterday? So it's constantly changing. It's very exciting to be in the industry."
Topher
B.S. Computer Information Systems and Communications

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