Dairy Technologist

Happy to present a Food Technologist role with a fast growing flavour manufacturing company

Job Title: Food Technologist

Role Overview

• Food Technologist with strong expertise in food enzymology, dairy technology, process

flavours and spray drying to lead development and scale-up of modified dairy systems and process flavours.

• The role will involve working closely with both the flavour production and R&D teams to develop and optimize in-house flavour ingredients and process flavours and then create standardized processes to scale them up to production volumes.
• The primary focus will be on enzyme-modified dairy with a secondary focus on Maillards and solvent extraction.

Candidates with experience in flavor houses, dairy processing, and processed food manufacturing will be preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Apply knowledge of dairy processing and enzymology to support development of fermented and enzyme-modified dairy products

Design and execute structured experiments to test process flavour recipes

Conduct end-to-end pilot-scale trials involving processes such as sterilization, homogenization, spray-drying, dry-blending and packaging

Maintain detailed documentation of experimental trials and develop SOPs for production

Work with flavour R&D on customizing process flavours as per their requirement and optimize cost-performance

Work with flavour production to scale production volumes while delivering consistent quality

Conduct sensory evaluation of trial samples

Investigate quality deviations or batch failures to identify root causes and suggest corrective measures

Conduct research on novel ingredients that meet business needs

Key Skills & Expertise

Strong conceptual understanding and extensive hands-on experience of food enzymology

Extensive hands-on experience with dairy science and dairy processing technologies such as homogenization, emulsions, cream separation, butter/ghee making, cheese making, fermentation, spray drying, and cold chain

Hands-on experience with Maillard reactions and/or other process flavours

Hands-on experience with solvent extraction

Experience with regulatory requirements including food safety, hygiene, shelf-life testing, traceability, and documentation

Experience with experimental design and documentation best practices

Experience with scale-up and translating laboratory results into pilot-scale trials

Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree in Dairy Technology, Food Technology, Food Science, Food Chemistry, or Dairy Science

3+ years of experience in dairy processing, flavour R&D or processed food R&D, particularly in pilot-plantoperations or scale-up