Product Development Technician

**Job Description**:
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.**

Working as part of a cross functional team, you deliver the RDQ activities required to complete new product development, portfolio maintenance and/or productivity projects with an emphasis on meeting the desired consumer experience.

**How you will contribute**

With the support and guidance of a manager, you will organize and execute projects in line with RDQ, marketing and manufacturing requirements, effectively communicating status and risks. You will plan and conduct pilot plant and factory trials in accordance with good manufacturing practice and HACCP requirements and development activities (e.g. product shelf-life testing, designing for quality, consumer test preparation etc.). You will also write technical reports that will require the analysis and interpretation of results and that lead to conclusions and recommendations and create and maintain accurate consumer-led specifications.

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

- Food science, science, or engineering ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods market
- Working on teams and independently with the guidance of a manager
- Prioritizing and managing activities
- Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently
- Communicating effectively verbally and in writing, including technical writing
- Putting the consumer at the heart of development activities

**More about this role**

**What you need to know about this position**:
The role takes on technical initiatives in chocolate manufacturing and supports the R&D team on product and process development projects. Individual has strong communication skills, analytical skills and problem solving skills. Some manufacturing, laboratory experience and/or R&D experience preferred. A degree in Food Science and/or Food Engineering preferred. Steel toed shoes are required for this position.

**What extra ingredients you will bring**:
Excellence communication and organizational skills eager to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment

**Education / Certifications**:
A degree in Food Science and/or Food Engineering preferred with lab or R&D experience

**Job specific requirements**:
**Travel requirements**:
Very limited travel with this position

**Work schedule**:
Monday to Friday business hours with occasional requirements to be onsite outside of business hours for trials.

**No Relocation support available**:
**Business Unit Summary**:
With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

**Job Type**:
Temporary (Fixed Term)

Product development

Science & Engineering