Food Technologist — NPD & Scale‑Up Specialist

Flavour Makers; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 73,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff product allowance

On-site parking

Professional development support

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Team tastings and product launches

Job summary

Flavour Makers Australia Pty Ltd (Flavour Makers) is seeking a technically capable Food Technologist to join the Technical and NPD team at Braeside, Melbourne. You will manage the full product lifecycle from concept through to commercial production.

This role offers exposure to dry blending, liquid fill and retort technologies within a BRCGS-certified business committed to innovation and people development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology, Nutrition, or related discipline.
• 1+ year post-qualification experience in a food tech, NPD or technical role within a commercial food/beverage setting.
• Hands-on experience with dry blending, hot-fill, cold-fill or retort/thermal processing.
• Experience taking products from concept to commercial launch and operating within a certified food safety management system (BRCGS, SQF, FSSC 22000 or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Develop new food and beverage products from concept to bench trials and factory scale-up.
• Formulate and reformulate recipes to meet sensory, nutritional, cost, shelf-life, and regulatory targets.
• Conduct ingredient functionality assessments and source suitable raw materials with Procurement.
• Design and execute shelf-life, stability, microbiological and sensory evaluation protocols.
• Prepare technical docs: specs, NIP, ingredient declarations, allergen statements and origin claims.
• Support retort validation and thermal process verification with QA and Process teams.
• Assist with HACCP reviews, risk assessments, change controls and audits (BRCGS, customer, regulatory).
• Troubleshoot production on dry blending, hot-fill, cold-fill and retort lines; drive CAPA actions.
• Collaborate with Ops, Engineering and Quality to improve yields, reduce waste and drive improvements.
• Liaise with external labs, regulatory consultants and certification bodies as required.
• Participate in customer presentations, plant visits, and represent Flavour Makers professionally.
• Mentor junior technologists and NPD assistants; promote knowledge sharing.

Skills

Food safety knowledge

HACCP principles

Formulation & costing tools

Nutrition panel software

MS Office / ERP

Shelf-life studies

Thermal processing (F0)

Data-driven problem solving

Strong English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Food Science or related discipline

Tools

FoodWorks software

ERP systems

NIP software

Job description

Flavour Makers Australia Pty Ltd (Flavour Makers) is seeking a technically capable Food Technologist to join the Technical and NPD team at Braeside, Melbourne. You will manage the full product lifecycle from concept through to commercial production.

This role offers exposure to dry blending, liquid fill and retort technologies within a BRCGS-certified business committed to innovation and people development.