Product Development Chef

6 days ago


Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Scarlett House Food Group Inc. Full time

Position Overview
As a Product Development Chef with Scarlett House Food Group, reporting into the Sr.

Product Development Chef, you will be key in creating new and exciting food products for a variety of market segments including airline catering, retail, and healthcare.

You will be required to continuously research new food trends, products in the marketplace, creating new recipe concepts including:

Conducting testing and sampling for new and current products.

Collaborating with our production teams to develop and engineer fresh / frozen / retherm recipe concepts.

Work closely with our food costing analysts and Q/A teams.


You will also work closely with our sales teams and collaborate on providing creative and unique recipe concepts for proposals as requested.


Duties and Responsibilities

  • Assist Sr. Product Development Chef with regular reformulation of products for improvement, enhancement and/or cost reduction.
  • Perform nutritional analysis for the product developed to ensure that it meets all the required specifications.
  • Aid in sourcing new product from various suppliers and evaluate the newly sourced product.
  • Coordinate and execute product tastings, recipe reevaluations, client sampling.
  • Monitor opportunities and competition to identify and enhance our competitive advantage
  • Organize and maintain proper condition of development department equipment kitchen, office and storage areas.
  • Innovates, develops and proposes new, trenddriven menu items.
  • Maintains detailed, accurate cost worksheets.
  • Researches and utilizes new and trending packaging products.
  • Works with the Purchasing Team to maintain detailed product specifications for all manufactured items.
  • Assists in developing and maintains label templates for all manufactured items.
  • Assists Sr. Product Development Chef in conducting shelf life testing in conjunction with FSQA Manager.
  • Assists Sr. Product Development Chef in site visits and compliance audits to evaluate products during manufacture and after delivery
  • Assists in the development of recipes, formulas, procedures, stepbystep assembly instructions and CCP requirements.
  • Continually research new products, methods and trends; attend industry events and trade shows.
  • Other duties as assigned.
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Requirements:

  • 3 years of product development and or culinary restaurant experience.
  • Post graduate certification from a culinary management school.
  • Well versed in regulatory requirements such as GMP, SQF, BRC, HACCP.
  • Demonstrated professional culinary presentation skills.
  • Exceptional customer service skills.
  • Computer knowledge; MS Office, Excel.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Problem solver and analytically minded.
  • Knowledge of industry trends, consumer insights, and competitive business strategy.
  • Requires adaptability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while addressing aggressive timetables for completion.
  • Some domestic and international travel will be required; access to a vehicle would be beneficial.
  • Requires strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
  • Must have 23 years of Sous Chef experience.

Working Condition/Physical Requirements

  • Able to work in hot and humid kitchen environment
  • Long periods of standing, bending, reaching, stooping
  • Lifting, pushing, and pulling weight up to 30 or more pounds

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
$58,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Dental care
  • Employee assistance program
  • Extended health care
  • Life insurance
  • Vision care

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Mississauga, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

  • How many years of experience do you have in Microsoft Excel

Experience:

  • Cooking: 2 years (required)
Culinary Product Development: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location:
In person

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