Senior Technologist Dairy/Non-Dairy Ellesmere Port, England

Ingredion

Full Time Ellesmere Port, England 35026 - 63649 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Company Background:

KaTech Ingredient Solutions Ltd. is an international, food technology company, that specialises in developing tailor-made stabiliser systems for the food industry. Our focus is dairy products, convenience food, bakery products and free from concepts. Food manufacturers and brands benefit from our expertise in textural ingredients and are able to fast-track their product developments, using our pilot plant facility close to the beautiful city of Chester.

KaTech is part of the Ingredion family who are a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our speciality portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and speciality sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.

Do you want to work developing food products of the future within a dynamic international food technology team?

At our pilot plant facility near Chester, your role will be to work closely with sales on all our customer projects within the Dairy and Dairy Alternative food sector and process trials on our pilot plant. You will gain a full understanding of dairy food products (ie. Custards, yogurts, desserts, cream topping, plant based dairy products, etc.), processes and raw material technologies and are responsible to meet technically, the provided project brief from our customers. Are you an industrial experienced technologist, and worked with food ingredients? Do you seek a new challenge and want to work in an excellent team to develop the next big product; then this could be an opportunity for you.

Your tasks will be:

Independently manage all dairy food customer projects from technical perspective
Independent planning and conducting of trials in our pilot plant
Structured documentation of trial evaluation of product development projects
New and continuous development of process technology
Gaining continuous knowledge of a range of raw materials, their functionality and application areas
Contribution of innovative product development re quested by market and customer trends
Preparation, support and execution of factory trials, as well as fault and root cause analyses at customers
Preparation and presentation of technical knowledge transfer internally and externally in conjunction of sales and marketing teams
Strong communication between all departments of the business like purchasing and sales

Your profile is:

University degree in Food Technology, or similar
Industrial experience in the dairy/dairy alternative food sector
Some experience working with textural food ingredients
Very good MS-Office package skills and confident to work with database systems
Prepared to travel nationally and internationally
Independent and structured way of working
Excellent team player
Able to work self-dependent and motivated
Excellent in Communication
Consequent delivery of target orientated projects

We offer:

Offering career development into a management role
A constantly expanding business with a huge knowledge base
A state of the art and modern working environment
25 holidays, excluding bank holidays
Company paid monthly Employee pension contribution of 4% annual salary
Dead in Service Insurance of 4 times annual salary
Private medical insurance
An exciting view into the work processes of leading food manufactures
Working close to the beautiful and vibrant old roman city of Chester

If you are excited to find out more about this amazing career opportunity, working for a successful international food ingredients business, then please get in touch today and apply immediately.

Contact us Please send you application letter with CV to [email protected] with your earliest date of possible employment, including your desired salary. We are looking forward to meet you.

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