Sr. Associate NPD

Job Category: Research & Development Job Family: Research and Development :

To develop new products based on projects assigned by the Team leader of Product Development, Sales or internal customer to be delivered on-time, on-budget, and on-target.

What Youll Do

• Responsible for project management and good stakeholder management, product development principles, basic food regulatory understanding, R&D processes, protocols. Has good verbal/ written communication skills dealing with people from product development backgrounds. Develops & creates prototypes, carry out sensory, analytical evaluation and benchmarking of market products. Guides product development in product approval at customers end. Leads and works directly with production and QA team to ensure trial runs and start-up operations are properly performed for all new product development and improvement projects. Development of efficient process from R&D lab scale trials to plant scale by understanding the process in detail and upscaling on production floor. Work closely with cross functional team and help to fulfill the needs of R&D projects. Should be ok for travel for product trials and product evaluation. Able to work at flexible working hours when needed.
• Supervises product development technicians to maintain accurate inventory of R&D supplies, ingredients and finished good samples. Maintain a tracking sheet for all these inventories. Develops standards and audits the product development assets for 5S readiness.
• Ability to develop analytical methods on new and existing ingredients and products.
• Leads shelf life reports on ingredients and products.
• Maintaining complete NPD documentation.
• Operates, performs needed preventative maintenance, and maintains various pilot plant equipment utilized to manufacture pilot bench top samples. Completes clean-in-place (CIP) and related sanitation tasks for the pilot plant unit & lab. Responsible for ensuring work area is clean and organized.
• Develops systems & procedures to ensure Safety and standardized work. Committed in ensuring food safety in product and process. Responsible for establishing HACCP plan for new products.
• Responsible for all other duties as assigned by Team Leader Product Development.

• Bachelors degree/ Masters Degree in Dairy Technology/ Dairy Chemistry.
• 3-6 years experience in research and/or product development.
• Incumbent should be sound in Natural & Processed Cheese manufacturing technology, awareness of formulation design, process improvement & modification.
• Well versed with the Food safety principles, HACCP and quality systems. Cultured dairy products manufacturing experience preferred.
• Strong analytical and dairy component understanding.
• Desire to grow and take on new challenges and opportunities.
• Ability to travel up to 10%