Our client, a leading regulated manufacturing company are looking for a Product Development Technologist to join their team. This is an opportunity to join a market leading company in a rewarding role with excellent opportunities for development.

The Role:

• Develop products through the development process from initiation to launch including bench work, taste panelling, customer presentation, carrying out trials, finished product specifications and first production.
• Recipe development.
• Nutritional analysis.
• Complete customer/finished product specifications to a high standard with a right first time policy.
• Sign off artwork for packaging of new lines ensuring adherence to all relevant labelling legislation.
• Maintain documents related to the new product development process.
• Organising benchmark panels.
• Make samples for internal and external presentations, nutritional analysis and reference samples for trial/launch.
• Customer presentations.
• Arrange trial/pre-production on new products.
• Recipe costings.
• Nutritional analysis.
• Make sure the ingredients stocks are kept high, collect raw materials from the plant on a weekly basis.
• Kitchen Facilities – Manage the maintenance of the kitchen facility.
• Working with and engaging others to strive towards best practice, via support, challenge and development, to positively affect the overall performance of the function.
• To keep up to date with culinary, dietary and new processing trends.
• Idea generation.
• Liaise with sales managers regarding project updates.
• Collate information, for example own label competitor information and make sure it is all up to date.
• Flexibility/wiliness to travel. Need to be able to go to the UK at short notice for own label presentations

The Person:

• Third level Honours degree in Home Economics/Food Science or related subject.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of product costings.
• Process awareness.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Culinary knowledge and a passion for food
• Use own initiative/quick learner.
• Presentation skills. Experience in presenting to the customer will help.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Must be able to work on several projects at one time. Should be able to prioritise work with the help of the NPD manager and team.

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For immediate consideration please call Pairic on 051-878813 or email your CV in response to this job posting.

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