Food Technologist - Bakery R&D

Overview

Sweet County Delights Private Limited is seeking a dedicated Food Technologist specializing in Research & Development to enhance its Bakery Manufacturing division in Mumbai. The candidate will spearhead new product innovations and improvements, collaborating with multiple departments to ensure top-quality, cost-effective, and compliant bakery products.

Key Responsibilities

• Create novel bakery items such as cakes, breads, cookies, biscuits, muffins, pastries, and rusks through rigorous product trials and development.
• Refine existing recipes to boost taste, texture, appearance, shelf stability, and uniformity while, where possible, introducing healthier alternatives and decreasing costs.
• Formulate and standardize recipes with up-to-date SOPs, product specifications, and production process documentation ensuring alignment between R&D samples and commercial outputs.
• Manage product trials, oversee pilot and commercial production scale-ups, tackle technical challenges in scaling, and validate product performance pre-launch.
• Assess and approve raw materials including flours, fats, sugars, dairy, cocoa, emulsifiers, stabilizers, flavors, colors, preservatives, and packaging materials to identify cost-saving alternatives.
• Conduct comprehensive shelf-life and stability testing, review packaging compatibility, and generate detailed validation reports with recommended enhancements.
• Lead sensory evaluations focusing on taste, aroma, texture, color, and overall acceptance; identify and resolve product defects ensuring consistency across batches.
• Ensure strict adherence to food safety regulations including compliance with FSSAI, GMP, GHP, HACCP, and food safety management practices, supporting audits and preparing all relevant documentation.
• Drive cost optimization by developing economical formulations and monitoring ingredient usage to improve manufacturing efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Quality, Procurement, Marketing, and Sales departments, providing technical support during new product launches and training manufacturing teams on updated formulations and processes.

Performance Indicators

• Successful innovation and market launch of bakery products within deadlines.
• Consistent improvement in product quality and batch-to-batch consistency.
• Achievements in formulation cost reductions and raw material usage optimization.
• Effective scaling of products from pilot to commercial production.
• Positive outcomes from shelf-life validations and quality audits.
• Minimal customer complaints concerning product quality.

Qualifications & Experience

Candidates with demonstrated expertise in bakery product development, recipe formulation, new product development, food processing, and food safety standards are ideal.

Additional Information

Salary: INR 30000 to 40000 per month

Work Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India