Incumbent is a Research Leader of the Cereal Product Utilization Research Unit at the Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California. As Research Leader, incumbent is responsible for leading the center's program on post-harvest utilization of cereal grain and vegetable crops for food and industrial applications. Incumbent is the key contact for various industrial groups and has the responsibility for initiating and expediting technology transfer. As fund holder, incumbent is responsible for management of personnel, appropriated funds, facilities, and equipment within the unit.
Incumbent is responsible for planning, directing, interpreting and reporting own research.
Research Chemist - All candidates must have a degree in physical sciences, life sciences or engineering that included 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by course work in mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics. Research Food Technologist - Candidates must have a degree in food technology, or dairy technology, microbiology, biology, chemistry, physics, or a related discipline or field of biological or physical science. The course work must have been comprised of at least 30 semester hours in the basic biological and physical sciences, and included at least 20 semester hours in food technology and closely related subjects, or 20 semester hours in subjects that can be applied directly to food technology. Knowledge of cereal chemistry, and technology. Skill and experience in conducting and leading independent multi disciplinary team research.