Food Technologist – R&D;

Key Result Areas (KRAs)

1. New Product Development (NPD)
- Develop recent bakery products such as cakes, pastries, breads, cookies, biscuits, muffins, and other bakery products.
- Conduct trials for new recipes and product concepts.
- Develop products as per market trends, customer requirements, and company objectives.
- Improve product taste, texture, appearance, shelf life, and cost effectiveness.
- Maintain proper documentation of all product development trials.

2. Product Improvement & Reformulation
- Improve existing products based on customer feedback and market requirements.
- Reformulate products to improve taste, texture, stability, nutritional value, and shelf life.
- Identify alternative ingredients and cost-effective raw materials.
- Conduct trials for reduction of sugar, fat, preservatives, and other ingredients wherever required.

3. Bakery Product Trials & Scale-Up
- Conduct laboratory and pilot-scale trials.
- Convert successful R&D; recipes into commercial production processes.




- Support production teams during product trials and commercialisation.
- Ensure consistency between laboratory samples and final production batches.
- Troubleshoot technical issues during scale-up.

4. Raw Material Evaluation
- Evaluate raw materials such as flour, sugar, fats, cocoa, dairy products, emulsifiers, stabilisers, flavours, colours, and other ingredients.
- Conduct trials for new suppliers and alternative raw materials.
- Check the technical suitability and performance of ingredients in bakery products.
- Coordinate with Purchase and Quality teams for raw material approval.

5. Product Quality & Sensory Evaluation
- Conduct sensory evaluation of products for:
- Taste
- Aroma
- Texture
- Colour
- Appearance
- Overall acceptability
- Monitor product consistency across batches.
- Investigate product quality issues and identify root causes.
- Recommend corrective and preventive actions.

6. Shelf-Life Study & Product Stability
- Conduct shelf-l

📌 Food Technologist (Bhiwandi)
🏢 Sweetcounty Delight
📍 Bhiwandi