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.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Food Technologist Job Vacancy
