Our client, an Africa-wide market development agency seeks to hire Food Technologist with hands-on experience in food processing, demonstrates strong technical skills, understands agricultural products processing, quality assurance, packaging and store management.
Duties and Responsibilities:
* Develops food standards, safety and sanitary regulations, and waste management and water supply specifications
* Develop quality control and food processing manuals for communities
* Conduct standardized tests on food, beverages, additives, and preservatives in order to ensure compliance with standards and regulations regarding factors such as color, texture, and nutrients.
* Train communities on quality assurance, food handling and processing for selected commodities
* Supervise demonstration on utilization at household level of various farm products
* Train communities on quality assurance for farm produce for household consumption, processing and direct marketing
* Mobilize communities to adopt quality checks for various agricultural commodities
* Mix, blend, or cultivate ingredients in order to make reagents or to manufacture food or beverage products.
* Order supplies needed to maintain inventories in laboratories or in storage facilities of food or beverage processing units.
* Develops new and improved methods and systems for food processing, production, quality control, packaging, and distribution.
Qualifications and experience
* Diploma in Food Science and Technology from recognized institutions
* Must have at least 2 years hand-on-experience in a busy agricultural / food processing unit
* Strong English language skills, both written and spoken and a strong technical report writing skills
* Willingness and ability to travel frequently or live in rural areas
Interested?
Send your CV to ann@flexi-personnel.com before 19th November 2010.
Please indicate the position applied for and minimum salary expectation on the subject line.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Food Technologist Job Vacancy
