Technologist (Meat speciality)
43800 Valls, Tarragona, Spain Req #2998 Friday, June 7, 2024
We blend care and creativity to nourish the world.
Griffith Foods is global product development partner, we specialize in high-quality food ingredients. We serve global food companies and regional food companies worldwide.
As a family business, we’ve valued people above all else for 100 years. Griffith is renowned for true, collaborative innovation. Our people care. We’re committed to helping our customers create better products - and a better, more sustainable world. Learn more about Griffith Foods on www.griffithfoods.com
We Are:
Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food ingredients. We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for customers throughout the world. Our products include seasoning blends, flavors, sauces, coating mixes and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of savory applications from snack food and processed meat, fish, poultry, vegetables to ready meals.
Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers. While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world’s best known companies. We combine consumer insight, industry experience, science and creativity to make the world’s food better – and our customers’ business more successful.
Founded in 1919, Griffith Foods is a privately held, fourth-generation entrepreneurial family business with headquarter in Chicago. Today, Griffith Foods proudly serves the international food industry with coverage in all major markets with manufacturing facilities, sales locations, development & culinary centers and more than 3000 employees worldwide.
Today Griffith Foods Europe has a vacancy for a talented Food Technologist with experience in meat technology.
Your Role :
Support the R&D activities and responsibilities that:
1. Will contribute to the growth of our product range and customer base
Support the development of new products for our targeted customers
2. Act as the technical contact for our customers in Continental Europe
3. Develop presentations, organise and execute workshops and train the customer showing our products in applications & marketable formats, in cooperation with sales and marketing
Create innovative seasoning & coating systems for protein based substrates
4. Develop winning products and for meat and poultry to create winning new products
5. Look actively for innovative raw materials and systems
6. Conduct raw material evaluations
Your Profile:
7. Master in Food Science or Technology or equivalent by proven experience
8. Experience in development and application of functional seasonings for meat & poultry
9. Experience in meat processing
10. Language skills: fluent in Dutch and English
11. Computer skills: MS Office
12. Project Management skills
13. Culinary experience is a plus
You Are:
14. Passionate about food
15. Strong team player AND able to work independently on product development projects
16. Self-confident and enthusiastic in presenting product concepts to customers
17. Passion for success with strong focus on getting things done well
18. Creative, efficient and well-organised
19. Flexible in willing to travel within Europeto support our customers with the application of our products in their factories
Working at Griffith Foods
We are a caring family company where everyone has the opportunity to grow, follow their own personal Purpose and find fulfillment in their work. We support each other, demonstrate mutual respect and nourish people’s well-being.
We believe in doing the right thing, especially when it is hard to do and recognize that our success depends on our customers’ success consequently, we work together, leveraging our skills, knowledge and ideas to create exceptional products and solutions.
We value diversity at our company and celebrate our cultural and personal differences, knowing that together, we create a unique source of strength. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability you may contact us at recruiting@griffithfoods.com