Research & development assistant

Key purpose:

Our company is currently looking for an R&D assistant to lead product development projects within the wet and dry pet food department, ensuring the projects are launched within the required specification, on time, of high quality, and at target cost in collaboration with all relevant departments. This person will also be required to conduct the least cost formulation of pet food.

Duties and responsibilities:
Daily reformulation of pet food Assist with the investigation of yield variances Identify new raw material sources and follow the process of approval Creating raw material specifications Creating finished product specifications Assist with document requirements for exports Conduct internal audits and supplier audits when required Registration of products with the Department of Agriculture Coordinate and drive multi-disciplinary teams (marketing, commercial, planning production, etc) through idea generati...