Junior Development Chef

Disgrifiad o’r Swydd

• NPD sample generation – Ensuring customer samples are made to specification, to a high-quality standard, in line with the customer brief.
• Accurately interpret customer briefs.
• Recipe formulation with commercial awareness ensuring methods are in-line with the business capabilities.
• Ensure all relevant documentation is detailed and correct.
• Proactively seek out NPD opportunities and ideas that will enhance business performance and complement internal and customer strategies.
• Maintain awareness of new, innovative ingredients, raw materials, suppliers and relevant market trends to enable the development of ‘first to market’ products.
• Liaise with cross functional departments.
• Assist with customer presentations.
• Work closely with the process team and cross functional teams to ensure smooth transition of products from kitchen to launch.
• Recording temp, pH, brix and viscosity of recipes
• Preparation of ingredients for sample make up (in production and kitchen).
• Coding and storing or retained samples.
• Ensure all kitchen health and safety procedures are adhered to.
• Recipe developments
• Sample creation
• Record keeping
• Commercially awareness on developments
• Understand customers development timings of briefs and processes
• Feedback to Beacon on market trends and competitor info
• Undertake reasonable tasks as requested by line manager

Gwybodaeth Ychwanegol

Skills Required:
• A qualified Chef with a passion for developing new and exciting products
• Good team worker – working towards the common goal
• Good planning, organisation and communication skills.
• Experience of working within a food manufacturing role would be desirable.
• Able to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• PC Literate.