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January 27, 2024

Full-time

Puratos

An international group offering a full range of innovative products, raw materials and application expertise to the bakery, patisserie and chocolate sectors is hiring R and D Specialist with Food Science experience:

Responsibilities

Supporting and assisting the R&D Manager in new product development.
Supporting product innovation.
Evaluating current and alternative food ingredients.
Supporting production team in recipe line adaptations and new product commissioning.
Running applications and baking tests for finished goods in the R&D lab.
Participating on cross-functional teams to ensure effective resolution of technical issues.

Executing product recipes and conducting a sensory evaluation of NPD.
Responsible for the sample preparation for customers & internal technical validation.
Evaluating current and alternative food ingredients and products used in the development and production of finished goods; to maintain compliance with specifications and standards that have been established during the test and trial period of new products.
Provide necessary technical information on products to customers.
Execute lab QA tests for all incoming raw materials & finished goods in the QC lab.
Execute spontaneous line quality checks.

Analysing quality concerns identified via product inspection and from field service operations while coordinating and producing daily, weekly and monthly quality control reports.
Implementing the set quality policies and standards.
Verify and validate implementation of quality and food safety manual.
Prepare Technical Data Sheets.
Monitor supplier performance and quality/food safety performance.
Visit the customers when needed to test the fillings (samples) together to know and understand more about their requirements.