Food Technologist
Qualifications Required
- Minimum Bachelor of Science or related discipline
- 5+ years PD experience in seasonings, marinades for meat/seafood & coatings
- Strong technical skills, expertise in new product design/development, ability to integrate positively with others, customer-centric, demonstrated ability to deliver objectives within demanding timelines
- Strong ingredient and processing knowledge as well as knowledge of laboratory analytical technique
- Good interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and PC skills
- Excellent organizational, project management and problem solving skills, works independently and possesses the ability to deal with changing priorities and varying customer needs.
- Basic knowledge on food regulatory and strong sense of risks on food regulatory/food safety
- Conversational in English
- Ability to balance work and personal life under pressure
Description Of Position
- Development of innovative new products and the optimization of existing products within cost guidelines, customer specifications and legal requirements.
- Responsible for providing technical support to our processor clients typically via preparing finished product samples, in-plant technical support. Customer contact is frequent and unsupervised.
- Responsible for report writing, including statistical evaluation of data, and accurately updating of formulation, ingredients, technology and files while maintaining the security of the information
- Frequent interaction with suppliers, QA, Operations, Sales and Planning/Scheduling during development and commercialization activities
- Responsible to approve alternate ingredients, substitutions or product revisions and assist in daily problem solving for quality, customer complaint or Operations issues.
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