About the Company
Tropico Fruits Pty Ltd is based on the beautiful Sunshine Coast and is a long established food manufacturing business renowned for manufacturing quality fruit juices and purees, and value-added fruit preparations.
About the Role
We are recruiting for a creative and passionate Food Technologist to join our small but busy team.
Key tasks include:
* Undertake new product development projects from briefing to factory trials, including bench work and customer and supplier liaison
* Modifying and improving existing recipes
* Liaise with suppliers to investigate opportunities for new ingredients, including ingredient assessment
* Prepare and update product specifications and other product documentation according to company procedures
* Writing of technical reports and test run plans
* Ensure regulatory compliance of product formulations
* Assist in running of PD kitchen including maintaining stocks of raw materials and packaging
* Ensuring that strict hygiene and food safety standards are met
* Monitor current market trends
A successful applicant for this position must have:
* Experience in Food Product Development with a focus on fruit prep or stabilised prep being advantageous
* Experience in thermal processed foods preferred
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills for daily interaction with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
* Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to react quickly in a fast changing environment, altering project priorities quickly as required.
* Ability to work within a team environment and independently, meeting with staff from the factory to the CEO as needed.
* Labelling and regulator requirements knowledge
Why Tropico
We pride ourselves on our friendly well-known work culture, we are an inclusive workplace with a professional approach and have been established for over 40 years.
Our people have a great attitude, care for safety of each other and our suppliers and customers. Our teams lead by example and strive to improve outcomes for all stakeholders.