Sr. Associate New Product Development
Location
Baramati | India
Job description
Job Category:
Research & Development
Job Family: Research and Development
Job Description: Develop new and innovative products and manufacturing processes to meet customer' needs. Modify existing products and processes to improve overall quality or costs. Develop or identify new or more cost-effective ingredients and production methods.
What you'll 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.
- 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.
What you need to succeed: - Bachelor's degree in food/dairy science or a related field.
- 4-5 years' experience in research and/or product development.
- Cultured dairy products manufacturing experience preferred.
- Strong analytical and dairy component understanding.
- Sound knowledge on Natural & Processed Cheese manufacturing technology, awareness of formulation design, process improvement & modification.
- Well versed with the Food safety principles, HACCP and quality systems
- Desire to grow and take on new challenges and opportunities.
- Ability to travel up to 20%
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