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Culinary Management Institute in Dubai, UAE, is looking for a Food Technologist for research, development, optimisation, and validation of rapid-rehydration foods, survival rations, and convenience meal solutions of Instant Foods.
Responsibilities – Food Technologist
1. Product Research & Development – Culinary Management
- Develop quick-cooking and instant dehydrated food products with minimal preparation requirements
- Formulate complete instant meal systems suitable for field and emergency use
- Design and optimize non-vegetarian dehydrated products including meat, poultry, and protein-rich formulations for Product Research .
- Develop instant beverage mixes, nutritional supplements, and dessert powders for Product Research
- Innovate emergency and survival ration formulations with high caloric density and nutritional balance
- Customize formulations for defence operations, disaster relief, and high-stress environments
2. Processing Technologies
- Apply and optimize advanced dehydration and preservation technologies, including:
- HTST pneumatic drying
- Freeze drying and accelerated freeze-dehydration
- Cold-shock dehydration
- Intermediate Moisture Food (IMF) processing
- Ensure rapid rehydration, minimal texture degradation, and retention of nutritional and sensory quality
- Study drying kinetics, rehydration behavior, and water activity control
- Scale formulations from Food laboratory to pilot plant and full-scale production
3. packaging solutions
- Conduct comprehensive shelf-life studies for packaging solutions
- Ambient conditions
- High-altitude environments
- Extreme hot and cold temperatures
- Develop modular ration components for flexible meal planning and logistics
- Select, test, and validate advanced packaging solutions for protection against:
- Moisture
- Oxygen
- Light
- Ensure compliance with packaging solutions for defence food safety standards, storage specifications, and quality protocols
4. Field Trials & End-User Validation
- Coordinate field trials with:
- Armed forces
- Disaster-relief and emergency response agencies
- Evaluate product performance under real operational constraints, including:
- Limited water availability
- Restricted fuel and cooking time
- Harsh environmental conditions
- Collect and analyze user feedback to improve:
- Taste and palatability
- Convenience and preparation ease
- Portioning and usability in field operations
5. document management system
- Prepare detailed technical reports, SOPs, validation documents, and process manuals for document management system,
- Support technology transfer to:
- Contribute to scientific publications, patents, and internal R&D knowledge systems
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across R&D, quality, operations, and field deployment
Job Qualifications
- M.Tech or PhD in:
- Food Technology
- Food Engineering
- Food Science
- Related disciplines
- B.Tech in Food Technology with significant and relevant industry or defence-oriented experience may be considered
- Strong expertise in dehydration technologies, drying kinetics, and instantization techniques
- Hands-on experience with Ready-to-Eat (RTE), instant foods or space foods
- Knowledge of nutritional formulation for extreme and high-stress environments
- Proficiency in sensory evaluation, shelf-life testing, and food quality assurance
- Understanding of food safety standards, packaging science, and storage stability
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary R&D and field-oriented environment in Culinary Management.
- Strong documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills
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