Food Technologist Job Opening.

Food Technologist Job Opening.
Our client, an Africa-wide market development agency seeks to hire Food Technologist with hands-on experience in food processing, demonstrates strong technical skills, understands agricultural products processing, quality assurance, packaging and store management.

Duties and Responsibilities:
* Develops food standards, safety and sanitary regulations, and waste management and water supply specifications
* Develop quality control and food processing manuals for communities
* Conduct standardized tests on food, beverages, additives, and preservatives in order to ensure compliance with standards and regulations regarding factors such as color, texture, and nutrients.
* Train communities on quality assurance, food handling and processing for selected commodities
* Supervise demonstration on utilization at household level of various farm products
* Train communities on quality assurance for farm produce for household consumption, processing and direct marketing
* Mobilize communities to adopt quality checks for various agricultural commodities
* Mix, blend, or cultivate ingredients in order to make reagents or to manufacture food or beverage products.
* Order supplies needed to maintain inventories in laboratories or in storage facilities of food or beverage processing units.
* Develops new and improved methods and systems for food processing, production, quality control, packaging, and distribution.