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Senior Food Scientist – New Product Development

Melbourne, Victoria💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-03

Core

Senior Food Scientist leading end-to-end new product development for food coatings (predusts, batters, breadcrumbs, seasonings), managing formulation, validation, and commercial launch.

Role type

Senior IC food scientist (new product development)

Builds

Food coating products (predusts, batters, breadcrumbs, blended seasonings) for global customers

Domain

Food manufacturing / Coatings technology

Required skills

Food formulation, pilot scale-up, food safety compliance, quality systems, supplier management, data integrity, technical communication

Preferred skills

Experience with batters/crumb/powder formulations, Microsoft 365 proficiency

Technologies

Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint)

Responsibilities

Own NPD projects from concept to commercial launch, conduct bench formulation and pilot runs, support customer trials and launches, maintain food safety and quality programs, manage supplier approvals and ingredient sampling, ensure data integrity in recipe systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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