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Senior Food Technologist – Packaged Snacks (New Unit)
Kanpur exporter Anchit Exports is diversifying into packaged snacks and food items and wants a senior food technologist to lead product development. The role formulates new products, runs lab trials and sensory panels and sets up quality control for production batches.
- Country
- India
- Experience
- Experience not specified
- Salary / stipend
- Pay not disclosed
- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Function
- R&D / product development
Who can apply
Bachelor's or master's degree in Food Technology, Food Science or related discipline
Review the original notice to confirm the requirements. Related degrees are not automatically equivalent; the recruiting organisation decides eligibility.
What you’ll do
- Lead product development and improvement, formulating new foods that meet quality, safety and regulatory standards
- Plan and run laboratory experiments
- Supervise sensory evaluation panels
- Set up and maintain quality control across production batches
- Translate customer and market needs into stable, scalable formulations with cross-functional teams
- Document technical specifications and test results
- Mentor junior technical staff and support audits and compliance
What the employer asks for
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Food Technology, Food Science or related discipline
- Strong food science, R&D and laboratory skills, including experimental design and data analysis
- Sensory evaluation experience with structured tasting protocols
- Knowledge of quality control, food safety and regulatory standards
- Experience leading product development projects in manufacturing or processing
- Good documentation, communication and team-guidance skills
About the employer
Anchit Exports Private Limited is a Kanpur-based exporter (Fazal Ganj) planning to diversify into packaged snacks and food items.
How to apply
Read the full notice and follow the instructions on the original application page.
Skills for this role
What employers ask for in R&D / New Product Development roles. named in this notice
- Food formulation
- Sensory evaluation
- Experimental design
- Quality control
- Food safety regulations
- R&D
- Product Development
- Formulation
- New Product Development
- NPD
- Reformulation
- Food Scientist
- Shelf-life study
- Accelerated shelf life
- Scale-up
- Pilot plant
Pay on similar vacancies
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Prepare for the interview
Questions commonly asked for R&D / New Product Development roles. Practise answers with an example and a number.
- Take us through the stage-gate process you would follow for a new product, from brief to launch.
- How do you design a shelf-life study, and which parameters would you track for a bakery or snack product?
- How would you reduce sugar or sodium in a product without losing consumer acceptance?
- Which sensory tests would you use to compare a reformulation against the current product, and why?
- How do you check that a new ingredient is permitted and at what level under FSSAI regulations?
- Tell us about a formulation problem you solved in the lab or pilot plant.
Before you apply
- Read the original notice end to endDates, eligibility and the application route are decided by the employer, not by FSD.
- Tailor your resume to this vacancyMatch the keywords in the requirements. Resume Studio shows what is missing.
- Write a short cover noteTwo or three lines on your most relevant plant, lab or project result, with a number.
- Be ready to talk numbersCurrent CTC, expected CTC and notice period are usually asked in the first call.
Source & editorial check
Apply through the LinkedIn listing.
Original posting: 2026-10-31
Checked 2026-11-05 · Updated 2026-11-05
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