Food Science jobs in Singapore

We are Reckitt Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege. Supply Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers. About the role

We are looking for a technical Lead for new Product development for Innovation, Non-Innovation and Raw material supplier development application within the site, actively partners with R&D, R&D Project, Supply Category project team and plant team for product development on product launches and reformulations.

Your responsibilities

• Support process development activities at site for NPD and productivity initiatives.
• Lead and conduct trials from pilot scale to plant scale for raw materials, formulations, processes in Wet process and Spray drying process in Milk/Infant formula manufacturing plant.
• Performs studies, development and qualifications ensuring the final product meets target physical properties, meets its functionality, cost, manufacturability, and the total product meet desired consumer acceptance metrics, regulatory requirements, environmental issues and sustainability, storage, transport, and distribution conditions.
• Maintains all formulation, operating parameters and manufacturing systems records at the site using tools like OPTIVA, GWINS & SAP.
• Provide technical support to manufacturing operation to ensure product quality and efficiency.
• Support commissioning, qualification, validation plant equipment in defined scope in capital projects to support innovation and supply chain initiatives.
• Drives structured problem analysis and design of experiment, to provide statistically based solutions to product and process development.
• Effectively communicates technical topics to key stakeholders, management and team members to influence decisions. Facilitates partnerships with key stakeholders on formulation, specification, equipment, and process changes.
• Develops the process knowledge of operators and others on site so that producing a quality product is seen as everyone's responsibility.
• Builds rapport and interacts effectively with employees at all levels, enabling continuous improvement.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree or B.S. in Engineering or Dairy/Food technology.
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in Nutrition/food/pharmaceutical/beverage manufacturing industry in R&D, QA, or production functions,
• Preferably with at least 1 year experience as Process Engineer operating key process technologies related to milk powder manufacturing or nutrition industry such as dry blending and packaging.
• Demonstrated ability to scale up and economically viable industrial scale manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge and hands on MS office, OPTIVA, GWINS and SAP.
• Experience in trouble shooting related to key unit operations and processes in food manufacturing.
• Experience in qualifying and commissioning of food processing equipment.
• Experience in Dry powder blending, powder conveying is an advantage.

The skills for success Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced analytics, Data analytics, Manufacturing excellence. What we offer With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy. Equality We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.