Process Development Technologist

Kerry offers the industry’s largest portfolio of Taste & Nutrition Systems and Functional Ingredients & Actives, serving the Global Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries. We work with the world’s top Retailers and Manufacturing companies to produce some of the best private-label products and tailored Food & Beverage solutions on the market. We also work with the leading Food Service chains helping to deliver appetising, relevant and innovative custom solutions, using our expertise in new product development, production and commercialisation.

Kerry Values: Courage | Enterprising Spirit | Inclusiveness | Open-mindedness | Ownership

About Kerry

A career with Kerry Taste & Nutrition offers you an opportunity to shape how people across the globe view food and beverage while providing you opportunities to explore and grow as your interests do. With our commitment to a sustainable future, a career with Kerry is something you can feel good about.

About the role

We are currently recruiting for two  Process Development Technologists , these are permanent, full-time positions based at our Cheese Production facility in Coleraine.   This is a great opportunity to join a global company at a site which is well known and loved locally.  The successful candidates will work closely with all departments as we look to improve processes and how we introduce new products in line with modernisation of the site.   

Key responsibilities

• Leads all trial and change activity ensuring adherence to site procedures and controls at all times.
• Documenting and evaluating all trial and change related data, ensuring all relevant outputs have been captured.
• Constantly gathers information from suppliers, wider Kerry group and industry to fully understand the capability and limitation of our process equipment and functional ingredients Interacts and troubleshoots with manufacturing concerns and engages in problem solving activities.
• Assists site with quality or process issues that may arise. Responsible for determining and validating all key process parameters and standard settings.
• Uses data, knowledge and expertise around the process and materials to ensure that site recipe formulations are optimised within specifications to positively influence product quality, yield, cost and line efficiency.
• Ensures that suitable methods are used to determine where raw materials may be suitable for change/replacement/substitution.
• Monitors daily manufacturing and quality data to identify opportunity for continuous improvement.
• Coordinates customer visits and presentations, provides customer Technical support as required.
• Provides coaching and training around areas of expertise for the wider team.
• Provides cover within the NPI during period of absence or holiday

Qualifications and skills

• Ideally a 3rd level qualification in a scientific / food technology discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience within a food manufacturing environment Demonstrable experience of process improvement/change within a food manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of cooking or dairy processing
• Experience in factory trial and scale up
• Experience in Raw material/ingredients selection and usage.
• Understanding of customer quality requirements: e.g. Micro/labelling
• Can communicate with both internal and external contacts and stakeholders at all levels.
• Logical and Structured approach to change management
• Customer focused – demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills (verbal & written) to act as a credible customer facing representative of Kerry.
• Self-motivated and can work under minimal supervision. Numerical ability to record, interpret and analyse key process data.

Kerry is an Equal Opportunities Employer.  Consistent with our policy of providing equality of opportunity for all, we are required to seek particular information from applicants.  As part of your application you will be asked to answer a short number of questions.  This information will be held separate to your application and treated in the strictest of confidence.