New Product Development Chef
Job Overview
Our Client, based in Naas, Co. Kildare is looking for a New Product Development Chef to join their team in their food production facility. You would be joining a well established, Irish owned food company. This is a full time, permanent job, Mon-Fri, days only with an attractive salary and benefits package on offer.
Do you have culinary experience and a relevant Culinary Arts qualification (or similar)?
Do you have previous experience working within a food manufacturing environment?
Some of you duties will include but are not limited to:
* The Culinary & Innovation Chef will be responsible for the development of new product concepts working on customer briefs, blue skies concepts & existing product re-developments
* Responsible for repeat customer sample requests ensuring consistency & timely sample submissions and documentation of all data
* To deliver product & innovation presentations, samples & new product concepts to the business, and to manufacturing, foodservice and retail customers
* To complete all paperwork including approved recipes, new raw material source data, recipe costings and product information sheet generation for all projects worked on
* To organise and prepare product samples for dispatch to customers daily. To track these deliveries with the couriers and issue despatch documents to the Chefs / BDM's
* To prepare ingredient and packaging orders through inventory control against SOP
* To attend customer update meetings and progress project approvals through the stage gate process
* Co-ordination of benchmarking of competitor products including application testing of TCFG products
* To assist the Culinary & Innovation Technologists and C&I Managers with specific customer projects
* Maintain awareness of market, market insights, consumer, restaurant trends and competitor activity
* Assist in managing the Development kitchen to a safe working environment to meet GMP standards
* To understand HACCP & Food legislative requirements
* Customer facing role, setting up feedback follow up meetings on projects
Requirements:
* Minimum of 2 years previous experience within the food manufacturing arena
* Culinary Arts Degree or similar qualification
* A passion for food with up-to-date trend knowledge on all areas of food innovation
* Microsoft office proficient
If this role sounds of interest to you and you would like to learn more about the job then please apply below by submitting your CV and I will contact you to discuss further.
Lauren Crowe 086 1078054
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Lauren Crowe
086-1078054Lauren is a Recruitment Administrator for the Commercial Team at FRS Recruitment. Lauren completed her Bachelor of Business degree majoring in HR from the University of Limerick and has recently joined the team at FRS. She is a people’s person and brings a lot of customer service experience to the…