R&D Executive

Qualification: MSc/BSc in Food Chemistry or Food Technology/ Biochemistry or Relevant Degree

Experience: 2-4 years in Research & Development

Desirable:

• Knowledge of food technology, food microbiology, safe food handling procedures and food service sanitation practices,
• Knowledge in ISO 22000, ISO 9001 and HACCP systems has advantage,
• Knowledge of data analysis and technology,
• Excellent communication and organizational skill.

Tasks

• Supports the R&D team for recipe development, Developing, vendor identification & development. Supports recipe transfer for commercialization.
• Responsible for developing and launching the assigned brand product innovations, which will result in the fulfilment of planned sales and profit objectives to ensure long-term optimum growth for the brand.
• Conduct laboratory trials under guidance of team leader for product development.
• Maintain detailed records of experiment undertaken.
• Report qualitative observations from experiments to team leader.
• Documentation of experimental records as per (FSSAI, HACCP, KOSHER, HALAL, FSSC 22000 etc.) Standard.
• Maintain quality of final projects as per company s specifications.
• Evaluate laboratory safety procedures to ensure compliance with safety standards.
• Working together with Sr. R&D executive and safety manager for improving policies, procedures & conduct training programs.
• Follow improved solutions to capture figures from production, packaging, Quality & Costing.
• Understand customer needs & requirements to develop effective quality control processes.
• To co-ordinate with Maintenance department as and when machines breakdown & troubleshooting.
• Communicate with Sr. R&D Executive /R&D Manager and other team members to offer possible solution for corrective action.
• Interact/collaborate with other departments to facilitate transfer of knowledge and deliveries of Product.
• Carry out lab/pilot scale experiments/trials and establish scale up feasibility.
• Make R&D improvement for the new products to meet the requirement of customer.
• Optimizing yields of formulation to maximize product output.
• Downstream processing and optimization.
• Inform Sr. R&D Executive for Material shortage.
• Interaction with seniors regarding technical problems, involve literature survey, route selection and initial process development activities.
• Contribute to evaluation of new scientific technologies and develop new unique processes that could be patentable.
• Report and present scientific/technical results internally and contribute to publications, presentations and patents.
• Maintain infrastructure/equipment.
• Prompt & safe skill of development of products from basic research to lab scale up and technology transfer from lab to pilot plant.
• Assist in trouble shooting in plant to solve the problem to achieve good yield and desired quality.
• Development of such a process that reduced cost efficiency, achieve good yield, quantity, quality and make a process very easy to handle and safe.
• To follow the rules of confidentiality of work & rules of company management.
• Ensure that testing procedure is applied as per SOP.
• Prepare COA (Certificate of Analysis).
• Prepare Test Report and sample collection record.
• Record NEAR MISS in the workplace/site.
• Prepare/modify SOP and submit to Sr. R&D executive.
• Ensure everyone use and maintain personal protective equipment such as nose mask hand gloves etc., as per protocol.
• Ensure that Personal belongings are placed on a separate place
• Ensure that First Aid is available when needed.
• Participate in training and effectively learn the testing procedure.
• Participate in seminars/conferences/ in order maintaining technical skills and expertise