Food Technologist

Food Technologist

Haddenham

At McCormick, the home of the Schwartz and other well-known brands, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavourful products. We are growing and are currently looking for an enthusiastic Food Technologist.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage projects, ensuring that the appropriate resources (sensory, research, regulatory, commercial, consumer insights, technical services, production, and QC) are allocated and co-ordinated to ensure that the action standards of the brief are met and completed successfully.
• Show team responsibility for the compounding and application of their own developments.
• Ensure that the seasoning raw material cost is at or below the cost limit specified in the seasoning brief.  Monitor project costs to check that they are not exceeding defined guidelines.
• Be responsible for the seasoning through the whole cycle, development to scale up and commercialisation to the trial in the Customers factory or restaurant, thus ensuring a flawless launch.
• Play a full and active role during Scale Up, Shelf-Life Studies, Raw Materials and Finished Product quality programmes and play an active part in the transfer of formulation responsibility to Operations.
• Research current consumer markets and latest technologies to develop new product concepts
• Undertake long-term projects with other departments, such as reducing waste by improving efficiency.
• Use sound commercial and technical awareness of our ingredients, processes, and customer requirements to deliver ‘right first time’.
• Build and develop professional relationships with suppliers and customers.
• Conduct Sensory tasting as required.
• Contribute to QA, Design and Sensory taste panels to develop a strong awareness of the sensory attributes of seasonings.
• Manufacture seasonings and sample products to a consistently high quality, as specified by the Lab operating procedures, while maintaining a clean and safe laboratory environment according to company standards for good manufacturing practice, hygiene, and housekeeping.
• Manage sample requests, action accordingly and provide feedback to customer.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Experience in a relevant food manufacturing and/or seasoning /flavour business.
• Developing experience on dry seasonings for savoury snacks will be an advantage.
• A Food technology / science or equivalent degree.
• Fluent English, second European language desirable.
• Previous experience in a successful launch of products.
• A good understanding of raw material functions and product shelf life.
• Good knowledge of rheology of dry ingredients and functionality of dry seasonings.
• Excellent sensory abilities.
• Good communication & presentation skills.
• Creative, self-starter with ability to anticipate customer needs and demonstrate exceptional service.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrate project management, good time management, and ability to build relationships within team and externally with customers.
• Passionate foodie open to taste all food categories: Dairy, Meaty, Spicy ethnic food.
• Good attention to detail and commercial understanding.
• Driving licence.
• Computer literate:
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point) and SAP.

COMPANY

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities, and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With 13,000 employees around the world and more than $5 Billion in annual sales., the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 50 locations in 27 countries and 160 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands including Schwartz.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion, and collaboration based on the highest ethical values. 

Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.