Product Applications Technologist

Job description

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Food Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry, or Food Science.

• A minimum of 3 years' experience.

Responsibilities:

• Develop plan of action based on request form received from NPD.

• Liaise with Sales Representatives and NPD regarding relevant requirements potentially omitted by clients.

• Create rough outline of recipe.

• Check that all required parts and ingredients are in stock.

• Liaise with Product Applications Manager for ingredient orders.

• Assemble machine(s) to be used in testing.

• Physically make product mix.

• Run product mix on relevant machine(s).

• Communicate outcome of trial to NPD/Product Applications Manager, etc.

• Report any concerns to Product Applications Manager.

• Compile a detailed product report on the trials that were done.

• Maintain database of project statuses and previous product mixes.

• Evaluate meat ingredients (i.e., particle size, binding, water, distribution between meat particles, etc).

Requirements

• Chemistry

• Database Management

• Equipment Operation

Posted on 18 Feb 16:41, Closing date 20 Mar