Development Technologist (Food Manufacturing)

Food & Hospitality
January 8, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Development Technologist (Food Manufacturing)

Company: Scantec Personnel

Job description: Location: Salford

Region: Greater Manchester

Sector: FMCG Food Manufacturing

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £25k – 32k per year + Benefits package

Job Reference: SF-NPD-88794

Published: 18-12-2023

Duration: Permanent

Expiry Date: 15-01-2024

Start date: Permanent

Country: United Kingdom

A leading FMCG Food manufacturer is currently recruiting for a New Product Development Technologist / NPD Technologist to develop products from concept to launch. This opportunity could be open to a graduate with an NPD industry placement or an NPD technologist looking to step to senior.

This company do not sponsor so cannot accept applications for candidates on work visas.

This Development Technologist / NPD Technologist will manage projects and tasks internally alongside customer requests whilst ensuring work is completed in line with the key dates on the critical path. You will also organise and execute factory trials by ordering ingredients, planning paperwork, and attending the trials with the factory

Development Technologist / NPD Technologist responsibilities include:

  • Develop recipes based on a customer brief or for an innovation session
  • Costing up recipes and completing NPD specs
  • Completing sample submission forms and customer presentation PowerPoints
  • Packaging fits for inner cartons, retail bags and outer cases
  • Sourcing and ordering new raw materials and packaging for briefs
  • Organising sample request that are to be sent to customers with labels, cooking instructions and NPD specs
  • Meeting critical paths for each project
  • Keep up to date with food trends and macro trends which influence food choices.
  • Maintain organisation of the NPD stock in the freezers
  • Innovation development of new products based on trends that fit within our factory capabilities
  • Support factory trials by providing recipes, specs, methods for new products progressing to trials
  • Taste panels and sign off products/packaging following factory trials

You will ideally be degree qualified / equivalent in a Food Science discipline and have experience working within an NPD department in the food industry. You will be IT literate in Excel, Word, Power-point and be able to work cross functionally with a positive can-do attitude. You will have excellent attention to detail with good organisational skills and have a keen interest in food

To apply please email a cv

Expected salary: £25000 – 32000 per year

Location: Salford

Job date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:46:35 GMT

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