R&D Assistant
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  • England,South East,Hampshire,Winchester
  • full-time
  • £25,000 - £27,000 per annum
Job Description:
R&D Assistant
£25,000 - £27,000
?Hampshire (Winchester)
?Food Manufacturing
?Job ref: 8714
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a traditional, family business which is extremely proud of its products. Supplied into high-quality outlets and retailers, the company has a clear vision to make and sell the best tasting and highest quality products.
The purpose of your role will be to provide support to the NPD Manager in delivering the company’s product development. This exciting role involves all aspects of NPD from concept to launch of new innovations in addition to continuous improvement of the existing range.
Key tasks
* Conduct laboratory trials for NPD, existing product development, new ingredients, and packaging and carry out factory trials of the same and complete supportive reports.
* Carry out physical chemical analysis such as viscosity, pH, Brix among others, and complete sensory evaluations, heat shock, melting resistance, scoop ability and generate reports.
* Maintain an inventory of ingredients and finished products in the lab and main freezer as well as shopping and conducting, benchmarking sessions, and collecting ingredients and packaging to ensure the NPD lab is well stocked, including ensuring that all ingredients are labelled with use-by dates.
* Carrying out factory trials and attending all first productions of new products, ensuring handover to Production and Technical teams and the completion of all relevant paperwork.
About You
To be considered for the R&D Assistant role, you will possess a degree or equivalent in a food science related discipline and/or possess previous food technical, NPD, laboratory or similar experience from either a full-time role or university placement.
* You will have a good understanding of food safety, technical information and quality standards.
* Have excellent organisation and problem-solving skills.
* An excellent communicator at all levels.
* A personable candidate with the ability to build rapport and maintain positive working relationships.
More details
The R&D Assistant job is based in Hampshire (Winchester) and is paying £25,000 - £27,000 according to your experience. Due to the location of the site, it is important that you can drive and have your own transport.
The working hours are 8.00am-4.30pm with flexibility to attend production trials.
Alternate job titles
NPD Technologist | NPD Technician | Food Product Technologist | Food Product Developer | NPD Assistant | Innovation Technologist | Food Science Graduate Jobs | Food NPD Job | Laboratory Assistant | Laboratory Supervisor | Food Lab Assistant | Laboratory Technologist | Food Scientist | Lab Technologist | Food Laboratory Jobs | Product Development Technician | R&D Technologist
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