A food manufacturing company in Dubai, is seeking a Food Technologist to contribute to the development, production, testing, and quality assurance of innovative functional food products. The position is suited to a food professional who understands ingredient functionality, product consistency, food safety, and manufacturing controls.
The role will focus on functional food formulations and value-added food products, including protein-enriched foods, fortified products, powdered food mixes, nutrition-focused beverages, and other products with functional ingredients. The successful candidate will work across formulation, processing, quality testing, documentation, and production support while helping ensure that products consistently meet defined food safety, quality, and specification requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the development and optimization of functional food formulations and new product concepts.
- Evaluate ingredient functionality, compatibility, stability, texture, solubility, and processing performance.
- Support pilot trials, product trials, scale-up activities, and production implementation of new formulations.
- Conduct quality checks on incoming raw materials and finished products.
- Perform or coordinate testing for moisture, pH, texture, appearance, solubility, nutritional parameters, and basic microbiological requirements, as applicable to the product.
- Assess functional ingredients such as proteins, dietary fibres, vitamins, minerals, plant-based ingredients, grains, oils, and other food ingredients.
- Monitor production parameters to maintain consistency, yield, product quality, and process efficiency.
- Maintain formulation sheets, trial records, specifications, batch documents, test reports, and quality records.
- Assist with raw material approval, product specifications, and finished-product evaluation.
- Follow GMP, hygiene, food safety, and quality control procedures throughout manufacturing and testing.
- Investigate formulation, processing, sensory, and quality deviations and support corrective actions.
- Work with production and quality teams to resolve manufacturing challenges and improve product performance.
- Contribute to continuous improvement, process optimization, and new product development initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, or a related field.
- Previous experience in functional foods, food product development, food manufacturing, fortified foods, nutrition products, or a related industry is preferred.
- Good understanding of food ingredients, ingredient functionality, formulation principles, and product development.
- Knowledge of food processing operations such as blending, mixing, thermal processing, drying, filling, and packaging is advantageous.
- Familiarity with routine food quality testing, including moisture, pH, appearance, texture, nutritional parameters, and microbiological requirements.
- Good understanding of GMP and quality documentation.
- Ability to maintain accurate laboratory and production records.
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Candidates must be willing to work in Dubai, UAE.