About the Role:

The Senior Food Technologist  will be part of the team that leads development from end to end on customer projects in the East African markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the preparation of samples for customer trials, product approval, country registration, returning Limited Time Offers (LTOs) and market promotion
• Responsible for pilot plant material preparation and trial execution
• Materials and finished product set up and maintenance of system
• Communicate and co-ordinate with R&D to gather relevant information for stability studies on plant trials and commercialised products, product scale-up and plant commercialization
• Assist with troubleshooting during pilot, scale-up trials and commercial runs
• Record and communicate all production data, production issues encountered, QA results after plant trials. Complete a brief post trial checklist/report
• Validate process parameters and results during plant trials
• Gain a full understanding of the production process and procedures and being a process and technical expert in the assigned technology and across multiple Kerry Taste & Nutrition technologies
• Collect relevant R&D samples e.g. shelf-life/analytical samples, customer samples
• Communication to R&D of any changes to current production lines/procedures
• Expand product knowledge by cross training in other technologies, assisting the commercialization team as needed
• Complete all necessary documentation/reports
• Assist in co-ordination of Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) support centre team or in other tasks/projects as requested by TIC Support Centre Manager on ad hoc basis

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

• Minimum a bachelor’s degree in Food Science or related qualification with at least 2 years of experience in scaling up production in manufacturing plant
• Preferably from a food & beverage manufacturing company with HACCP, GMP & ISO 22000 certified environment
• Able to work independently at flexible hours with minimum supervision and able to work as a team
• Comfortable to run production trials after official hours and weekend
• Good communication and writing skills in English
• Competent in MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Good interpersonal and self-organizing skills