R&D Chef

Job description

Description Provide research driven innovation of raw value-added proteins and fully cooked sous vide products that align with Kilcoy Global Foods vision for unparallel high quality growth and excellence within the food industry. Role and Responsibilities: · Participate & contribute to cross-functional teams to drive new product innovation · Identify gaps in our portfolio through competitive analysis of our categories · Comparison shop and perform competitive product analysis · Create and execute trend innovation ideas and formulas for foodservice and retail channels · Coordinate multiple concurrent product development projects (raw value-added protein and fully cooked sous vide items) from bench top testing to production commercialization · Manage new product development projects and assist in setting specifications to include sourcing/qualifying ingredients, establishing equipment requirements, determining manufacturing processes for new products · Assist operations/production in new product scale ups · Performance test developed products based on use case · Provide new product specifications to Regulatory, Sales, QA and Purchasing · Develop and validate cooking & reheat instruct...