- Conducts new ingredient and food product research.
- Develops new product.
- Improves product quality or cost by modifying formulation of current products.
- Performs physical and chemical analyses on ingredients and/or food products.
- Develops product, process and/or packaging specifications for food products.
- Studies methods to improve quality of foods such as flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, or physical, chemical, and microbiological composition of foods.
- Tests new products in the lab and develops processing methods in the pilot plant.
- Performs product scale-up and new product commissioning.
- Sets-up operational process conditions.
- Conducts operational data analyses to finalize product and process specifications.
Functional knowledge – Strong food science and processing fundamentals. Quality – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughnessProblem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner. Leadership – Self-motivation; delivers results on target; helps team to succeed. Teamwork – Balances team and individual responsibilities. Communication – Listens and follows direction. Writes clearly and informativelyGraduate degree in food science or other relevant science; at least 1 year of food industry work experience in the areas of product/process development, ingredient research, product formulation, specification development, analytical.Graduated from faculty of agriculture or science