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Food Technologist Jobs within the food manufacturing sector are particularly specialist positions and ones that have become more in demand in recent years than any other food industry career. Do you have a technical mind? Are you interested in the technology behind food preparation on an industrial scale? If you answer yes to the above, then jobs in food technology could be the career of choice for you.

Basically, food technologist jobs will involve helping to manufacture the food & drink products of the future, developing new techniques and ensuring they are harmless for consumers to eat! Such jobs require immaculate attention to detail along with the ability to (not surprisingly) stick to the severest of hygiene regulations.

Those with successful food technologist careers usually begin with a degree in food science, food studies or of food technology but you can enter with a Btec, HNC /HND or even as an apprentice.

Food technologist jobs look at ways to take existing foods and modify them to create new and/or improved products; fat free for example. You may also work on newly discovered flavours or ingredients and hopefully create totally new recipes. Once this has happened, food technologists will then help design the whole process and machinery to make the new products in industrial quantities.

Jobs in food technology will almost always involve supporting technical / quality assurance teams to ensure products are safe and legal and the NPD department. It will vary from factory to factory so as your food technologist careers develop, you will also gain expertise in areas such as market research, engineering and even planning production.

As with most food industry careers, on top of the specialist qualifications and training, food technology jobs require skills desirable for most careers. These are likely to include high attention to detail, working on your own initiative as well as part of a team, high confidence levels to liaise with customers& suppliers and strong communication skills – verbal and written!

Food technology jobs are as varied as they are exciting positions - Packaging Technologist, Flavour Technologist, Process Technologist to name just a few. Whatever food technologist careers route you choose, assume the chance to progress, grow your skills continually, even moving into supervisory roles. Whilst all the time helping develop the exciting new foods for the consumers of tomorrow.

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