Fazlani Exports Pvt. Ltd.
Website:
fazlani.com
Job details:
The Senior Food Technologist is responsible for leading the development, improvement, and commercialisation of food products while ensuring compliance with regulatory, quality, and safety standards. This role plays a strategic part in driving innovation, optimising formulations, enhancing product quality, improving shelf life, and supporting business growth through technical expertise and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end product development from concept to commercialisation.
- Develop new formulations, optimise recipes, and improve existing products for quality, cost efficiency, and scalability.
- Conduct product trials, pilot runs, and factory-scale validations.
- Identify emerging trends, ingredients, and technologies to drive innovation.
- Apply food science principles related to chemistry, microbiology, processing, and preservation.
- Troubleshoot formulation and processing challenges.
- Improve product shelf life, stability, texture, taste, and nutritional profile.
- Evaluate raw materials and approve alternative ingredient sources.
- Ensure compliance with food safety regulations, labelling standards, and regulatory requirements (e. g., FSSAI, FDA, or applicable authorities).
- Support implementation and maintenance of HACCP, GMP, and food safety systems.
- Assist quality and manufacturing teams in resolving technical and quality issues.
- Work closely with manufacturing to ensure smooth product scale-up and production transfer.
- Optimise production processes for efficiency, yield, and consistency.
- Support cost reduction initiatives without compromising product quality.
- Collaborate with Procurement, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Operations teams.
- Provide technical guidance to internal stakeholders.
- Support customer requirements, technical presentations, and product customisation when required.
- Maintain detailed product development records, specifications, and technical documentation.
- Prepare technical reports, SOPs, and product specifications.
- Ensure traceability and documentation for audits and regulatory compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Food Technology, Food Science, Food Engineering, or related field (mandatory).
- 8-15+ years of experience in food product development, food manufacturing, or R& D.
- Proven experience in product commercialisation and scale-up.
- Experience working with regulatory standards and food safety systems.
- Master's degree preferred.
- Strong knowledge of food chemistry, microbiology, and processing.
- Product formulation and ingredient functionality expertise.
- Shelf-life evaluation and sensory analysis.
- Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, and regulatory requirements.
- Pilot plant and factory trial experience.
- Documentation and technical specification writing.
This job was posted by Mehjabeen Sajid from Fazlani Exports.
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