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Senior Technologist Dairy/Non-Dairy
🏢 Ingredion
📍 Ellesmere Port, England
💼 Company - Public
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£35,026 - £63,649
£2,919 - £5,304 / mo
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Transatlantic Cost of Living & Purchasing Power Benchmark
Location Base
Ellesmere Port, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
Single tax filer baseline
Transatlantic Parity
1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications
Company Background:
KaTech Ingredient Solutions Ltd. is an international, food technology company, that specialises in developing tailor-made stabiliser systems for the food industry. Our focus is dairy products, convenience food, bakery products and free from concepts. Food manufacturers and brands benefit from our expertise in textural ingredients and are able to fast-track their product developments, using our pilot plant facility close to the beautiful city of Chester.
KaTech is part of the Ingredion family who are a Fortune 500 provider of ingredient solutions that helps nourish, comfort, sustain, and delight people around the world. Ingredion’s wide range of ingredient solutions is strategically designed to address changing consumer trends and preferences. Our speciality portfolio includes starch-based texturizers, clean and simple ingredients, plant-based proteins, sugar reduction and speciality sweeteners, and food systems. Our innovative ingredient solutions are used by consumers in everyday products, from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals. And we do it all in a planet-friendly sustainable manner.
Do you want to work developing food products of the future within a dynamic international food technology team?
At our pilot plant facility near Chester, your role will be to work closely with sales on all our customer projects within the Dairy and Dairy Alternative food sector and process trials on our pilot plant. You will gain a full understanding of dairy food products (ie. Custards, yogurts, desserts, cream topping, plant based dairy products, etc.), processes and raw material technologies and are responsible to meet technically, the provided project brief from our customers. Are you an industrial experienced technologist, and worked with food ingredients? Do you seek a new challenge and want to work in an excellent team to develop the next big product; then this could be an opportunity for you.
Your tasks will be:
- Independently manage all dairy food customer projects from technical perspective
- Independent planning and conducting of trials in our pilot plant
- Structured documentation of trial evaluation of product development projects
- New and continuous development of process technology
- Gaining continuous knowledge of a range of raw materials, their functionality and application areas
- Contribution of innovative product development re quested by market and customer trends
- Preparation, support and execution of factory trials, as well as fault and root cause analyses at customers
- Preparation and presentation of technical knowledge transfer internally and externally in conjunction of sales and marketing teams
- Strong communication between all departments of the business like purchasing and sales
Your profile is:
- University degree in Food Technology, or similar
- Industrial experience in the dairy/dairy alternative food sector
- Some experience working with textural food ingredients
- Very good MS-Office package skills and confident to work with database systems
- Prepared to travel nationally and internationally
- Independent and structured way of working
- Excellent team player
- Able to work self-dependent and motivated
- Excellent in Communication
- Consequent delivery of target orientated projects
We offer:
- Offering career development into a management role
- A constantly expanding business with a huge knowledge base
- A state of the art and modern working environment
- 25 holidays, excluding bank holidays
- Company paid monthly Employee pension contribution of 4% annual salary
- Dead in Service Insurance of 4 times annual salary
- Private medical insurance
- An exciting view into the work processes of leading food manufactures
- Working close to the beautiful and vibrant old roman city of Chester
If you are excited to find out more about this amazing career opportunity, working for a successful international food ingredients business, then please get in touch today and apply immediately.
Contact us Please send you application letter with CV to jobs@katech-solutions.com with your earliest date of possible employment, including your desired salary. We are looking forward to meet you.
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