Product Development Assistant – Hot Kitchen and Pastry Java Housework_ outline Full time date_ range Apply by 09 September 2023 reply SHAREAPPLY NOW Product Development Assistant – Hot Kitchen and Pastry
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Job description
Strategy/Planning
- Generating ideas for new products and researching feasibility in terms of profitability and compliance with regulations, based on reading and research.
- Identifying trends and insights that lead to the conceptualization of product ideas that will uniquely and competitively position Foodscape. Staying up to date with products on the market.
- Ensure that all projects are delivered in a consistent manner and according to agreed procedures and specifications.
- Respond to customer requirements, liaising with suppliers of raw materials and resolving production problems.
- Making improvement or modification to current recipes and process.
- Liaising with other departments and ensuring good dialogue and smooth information flow.
Implementation
- Accurately completing all project-related documentation and drafting and signing off product specification sheets.
- Organizing schedule for production line testing of products, tasting panels and documenting feedback.
- Preparing and dispatching samples to customers.
- Identify and correcting quality problems.
- Scale up the production process via on the production floor trials, making changes to raw materials or components and process parameters to ensure quality is maintained during large-scale production.
Reporting and Evaluation
- Recording and analyzing data.
- Assist in generating and presenting results, purposeful reports during the development phases of product and process trials that enables effective decision making in regards costing, ingredient selection, CAPEX and staffing levels.
- Assist in conducting relevant process audits, issues structured and meaningful data that provides observations and recommendations that ensures that day to day practices best meet the standard procedures and lead to less quality rejects.
- Prepare specification sheets for finished products before handing the recipe to production.
Role overview
FUNCTION
Other
INDUSTRY
Food & Beverages
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
2-3 years
LOCATION
Nairobi
MUST-HAVE SKILLS
- Quality Assurance Processes
- Problem Solving
- Food Cost Analysis
- pastry baking
- Hot Kitchen operations
About Java House
Java House, commonly referred to as ‘Nairobi Java’, opened its first store in 1999 at Adam’s Arcade in Nairobi. With the aim of introducing gourmet coffee drinking culture in Kenya, the first outlet was a coffee shop and later the brand evolved to an American diner style restaurant to its present-day status as a 3 -day part coffee-led, casual dining concept.
Java House is now one of the leading coffee brands in Africa and has grown to have outlets in 14 cities across 3 countries in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda). It has also birthed two sister brands Planet Yoghurt, a healthy, tasty and fun frozen yoghurt store and 360 Degrees Pizza, a casual dining restaurant.
“Welcome to Java. A home away from home”
