This is an excellent opportunity to join a progressive food organisation who offer enormous potential for development and growth.
The Company/Role.
This role has been established to enhance the business capabilities to deliver the commercialisation of NPD projects to scale customer products within a manufacturing setting. To do this, you will understand and support development of new products from our raw materials to design and integrate the right process technology / conditions to facilitate the implement of large-scale solutions.
Key Accountabilities.
1. Delivery of a New Product Developments Processes that are fully integrated at large scale and handed over to Factory operations as business as usual
2. Performance measured on Project Based Objectives
3. To keep abreast of product and process developments within the industry ensuring a robust pipeline of activities
4. To evaluate new processes and new technology, related to processing and integrate at large scale these new processes.
5. Define process conditions and support commissioning of new large-scale capital installations
6. To project manage the coordination of trials.
7. Trials that require changes to the process (Temporary or permanent) will be supported by the Projects management team to include capex, project design and project engineering.
8. To provide technical expertise to sales in the development of new products; support of existing products and creating more value.
Personal Profile.
9. Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology or Food Technology
10. Project Management Qualifications
11. Expert use of Microsoft Excel critical to this role - good analytical skills and data manipulation
12. Strong reporting and communication skills
13. Experience in a relevant role working with process equipment at pilot / large scale
14. Self Motivated, self starter and driven to deliver against a strategic target
15. Questions and challenges what is considered normal – dissatisfied with average
16. Ability to work accurately, calmly and objectively under pressure
17. Excellent analytical & numeracy and structured approach to work relying on factual evidence to support hypothesis
18. Effective Project Management
19. In-depth and Hands on knowledge of manufacturing processes