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About Kerry Australia

Kerry Australia is the world’s leading taste and nutrition partner for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. They innovate with their customers to create great-tasting products with improved nutrition and functionality while ensuring a better impact on the planet. The company's leading and proprietary consumer insights, global RD&A team of 1,000+ food scientists, and local manufacturing footprint in 31 countries enable them to co-create with their customers across over 150 countries. 

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Your role

Work location: Lonsdale, Adelaide
Reporting to: Flavour Technologist

The RD&A Flavour Technician is primarily responsible for activities supporting the RDA function and preparation of product samples. This role contributes by supporting the RDA team in delivering customer projects through supporting development activity, raw material evaluations, sample preparation and systems compliance within the group. Working hand in hand with their scientists and commercial teams to ensure timely responses on customer projects and samplings, which directly impacts business growth targets. In addition, this role will help maintain RDA facility excellence, pilot plant equipment, stock control, shipping logistics and compliance with expected GMP’s, housekeeping, health, and safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Taste team on projects.
• Support the Raw Material Evaluation (RME) process.
• Mixing recipes in accordance with the preparation methods provided.
• Provide application support to R&D staff as necessary.
• Responsible for the preparation of samples for evaluation, customer trials, product approval, market promotion and customer presentations.
• Ensure retained samples are collected and stored appropriately.
• Responsible for pilot plant material preparation and support during trials.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) scale-up trials.
• Goods receiving and dispatching for RDA.
• Maintain and record documentation, including upkeep of equipment, and general cleaning of work areas. Actively participates in quality improvement for the function.
• Support and follow Good Laboratory Practice manual expectations.
• Housekeeping of general sample work area, pilot plant and sample room.
• Navigating SAP, Optiva and SFDC network systems.
• Labelling/packing samples and other duties and project work as required.

Training & development

The Kerry Graduate Development keeps you on course to be the very best you can be, the company's programme follows the 70:20:10 development model:

• 70% of your learning takes place on the job through projects, rotations, and being given responsibility early in your career
• 20% comes from the support of your manager and your mentor, who is a senior leader in Kerry Australia
• 10% comprises a personal leadership programme run in conjunction with a leading training partner

Benefits

Kerry Australia offers a competitive salary to invest in you and your development. In addition, the company offer 25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays), health care coverage, matched pension scheme (2%-10%), a benefits platform offering discounts and cashback on major retailers, and access to an employee assistance program. Rewards and benefits will be subject to the location where you're working in. 

Career progression

Kerry Australia believes in giving talented, curious people opportunities to make a difference. They believe people can achieve whatever they put their minds to and they’re actively looking for people who share their purpose. Join their team in innovating across disciplines to create new solutions for food, beverage, and pharma products. 

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Work life balance

Kerry Australia provides comprehensive work-life balance benefits:

• Vacation & Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Volunteer Time Off

Culture & vibe

Kerry Australia fosters an inclusive culture where people feel valued, respected, and at their best. They respect the unique perspective and experiences of each of their colleagues. They celebrate the differences that make life interesting and continue to build on their work to date. Read more.

About you

• Open to fresh graduates with Bachelor’s degrees in Food Science, Food Technology or any other relevant technical field.
• Bonus for those with work experience in a food & beverage manufacturing company with HACCP, GMP & ISO 22000 certified environment. 
• Strong sense of smell and taste. Along with a commitment to fulfilling customer needs.
• Able to work independently with minimum supervision and in a team environment.
• Ability to meet deadlines, self-managed, able to handle multiple tasks with speed and accuracy, with attention to detail
• Fluent communication and writing skills in English.

How to apply

To apply for this role, simply click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page to submit your application directly to Kerry.