Senior Food Process Development Leader

CareersInFood.com; Lynn (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential (15% target bonus)

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Kettle Cuisine is seeking a Process Development Manager to lead the transition of new recipes into production and own product launches in production. You will support quality throughout the product lifecycle by collaborating with Process Development, Operations, Culinary, QA and Procurement teams.

The role reports to the Kettle Cuisine Process Development team and requires strong leadership, process optimization, and cross-functional partnering to ensure scalable, high-quality outputs for our

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-8 years in process management in the food manufacturing industry.
• Must be familiar with a variety of food technologies, practices and procedures.
• Strong business and financial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Management & development of local process team.
• Develops manufacturing processes by studying product requirements; researching, designing, modifying, and testing manufacturing methods and equipment.
• Collaborate with Culinary Team on all new recipes for local factory to ensure capabilities and product expectations are presented properly to our customers.
• Highlight risks from a manufacturing and quality aspect to be brought to entire cross functional team.
• Responsible for full approval of recipes from Culinary Team to move forward to factory trials.
• Manufacturing formula management, delegating R&D recipes transition to factory ready manufacturing recipes with Senior Technologist.
• Recipe Scale up, Written Procedures for all Manual Kettles in multiple languages, & Recipe Management creation for all kettle types.
• Direct Process Team for all work on Pre-Production Trials, Launches to ensure recipe scale up is successful.
• Assures product and process quality by designing testing methods; testing finished- product and process capabilities; establishing standards; confirming manufacturing processes.
• Monitor product yields of new launches & trials to further assess risks of new and up coming projects.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

Skills

Leadership

Customer-centric thinking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or related field

Job description

Kettle Cuisine is seeking a Process Development Manager to lead the transition of new recipes into production and own product launches in production. You will support quality throughout the product lifecycle by collaborating with Process Development, Operations, Culinary, QA and Procurement teams.

The role reports to the Kettle Cuisine Process Development team and requires strong leadership, process optimization, and cross-functional partnering to ensure scalable, high-quality outputs for our