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About this position

The Senior Officer - R&D position involves working on product and process development, focusing on innovation and quality improvement in the food industry. There are three specific roles available, each with distinct responsibilities and qualifications.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:
• Primarily, working to deliver new product design/ new product concepts or new platforms to expand company product portfolio.
• Conducting process and product analysis to ensure new products achieve defined business target.
• Develop new measurement methods & technologies for NPDs.
• Optimize and scale up from lab scale to pilot scale and commercial scale up.
• Coordinate with factory and supervise on maintaining or improving product quality, improving production process and troubleshooting of existing products.
• Participate in new strategic projects aimed at developing long-term innovation concepts in specialty ingredient applications, with a strong focus on sustainability.
• Analyze patent information and provide innovation insights and foresight in a particular ingredient technology area to the line manager.
• Initiate prototype development based on the NPD brief and able to scale up production from lab to industrial trial, including commissioning and validation.
• Define, plan, and execute an innovation project.
• Design, develop, and continuously improve the existing product portfolios to be more competitive in areas of performance, compliance, and recipe cost.
• Design and development of product innovation to meet the requirements of our consumers and comply with Thai Wah's direction.
• Product Development: Lead

Requirements

Qualification:
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Food Science and Technology or equivalent field of science.
• 3-5 years' experience in research and development, production in food industry. Starch, Flour business is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of product development from bench top to full scale production.
• Broad knowledge of starch, food chemistry.
• Good leadership skills, able to work independently, manage multi-task, and work under pressure.
• Good understanding of GMP, HACCP, ISO22000, FSSC22000 and FDA regulatory.
• Good English communication skills.
• Computer skill: Microsoft Office and adaptable to data analyzing.
• Able to travel upcountry (Thai Wah Factory).
• Bachelor's, master's degree, or higher in food technology, food science, food engineering, chemical or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in R&D Lab, New Product Development in Food Industry.
• Broad knowledge of starch, carbohydrate and food chemistry.
• Interest in working in a lab environment with practical work achievements and strong problem-solving skills and high sense of responsibility.
• Basic IP management and analytical skills.
• Good conceptual thinking skills. Can translate complex concepts into clear communications.
• Ability to manage the projects to achieve timely launch and flawless execution.
• High learning agility and team collaboration.
• Ability to use software and systems for project management.
• Good communication in English.

Benefits