Hiring: Food Technologist – In-House Manufacturing, Quality & Food Safety
Location: Andheri East, Mumbai (Manufacturing Facility)
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Manufacturing / Operations
Reports To: Founders / Head of Operations
Role Purpose
The Food Technologist will be the technical owner of in-house food manufacturing, responsible for ensuring all products are protected, compliant, consistent, shelf-stable, and scalable.
This role has end-to-end responsibility from raw material intake to finished goods dispatch, with authority over production processes, quality control, food safety systems, and factory discipline.
This is a hands-on factory-floor role, not a desk-based QA position.
Scope of Authority
The Food Technologist is authorized to:
- Stop production in case of quality or food safety risk
- Approve or reject raw materials, in-process batches, and finished goods
- Define and enforce SOPs, GMP, and HACCP requirements
- Set and modify production process parameters
- Lead corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
Key Responsibilities
1.
In-House Production Management
- Own daily production operations across all SKUs
- Define and control batch sizes and process parameters
- Monitor environmental conditions (temperature, humidity)
- Ensure production targets, yields, and timelines are met
- Troubleshoot issues related to texture, binding, moisture, breakage, and packaging
- Minimise downtime, rework, and wastage
2. Product Development & Scale-Up
- Translate R&D; formulations into production-ready recipes
- Conduct pilot trials and commercial validation batches
- Optimise formulations for:
- Shelf life
- Process stability
- Ingredient functionality
- Cost efficiency
- Support new product launches from trial to full-scale production
3. Quality Control & Quality Assurance
- Design and implement factory-wide QC systems
- Define quality specifications and acceptance criteria
- Oversee:
- Incoming raw material checks
- In-process quality controls
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