Food Technologist (Food Tech Startup)

Kosmode Health Singapore

Singapore, Singapore

SGD 4,000 - 6,000/month

Engineering

Full-Time

1 - 3 years of experience

Posted 3 months agoUpdated a month ago

Job description

OVERALL JOB SCOPE
The Food Technologist has primary responsibility for in-house R&D,  manufacturing scale-up, management & delivery of customers’ projects, formulation of functional products; and secondary responsibility in technical support in 3D scaffold bioprinting and applications.
SPECIFIC ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
⦁ Undertake extractions of bioactive (e.g. polyphenols, proteins, fibers etc) from botanicals and food processing and/or agri-food side-streams (such as spent barley, spent coffee).
⦁ Design, formulate, manufacture functional products for commercialization.
⦁ Analysis of food compositions including micronutrients
⦁ Development of SOPs for new processes
⦁ Prepare product prototypes for promotion, exhibition, and marketing purpose
⦁ Project management - Plans, schedules, coordinate internal resources, liaise with third parties/vendors for the seamless execution of customers’ and R&D projects.
⦁ Perform analysis, characterization, identification of botanicals, extracts etc.
⦁ Prepare business process reports for management and customers.
⦁ Scientific writings & presentations including grants applications, conference/scientific papers/presentations
⦁ Participate in customers’ meetings and business development activities
QUALIFICATIONS
i. Academic & Experience
⦁ Fresh Masters or PhD in Food Science Technology.
⦁ Bachelor of Food Science Technology graduate with at least 3 years of industry product formulation experience may be considered
ii. Other Skills/Experience
⦁ Food manufacturing or pilot scale experience is a plus
⦁ Strong network within functional food, supplements, biomedical and food science research institutes is a strong advantage
⦁ Solid organizational skills with multi-tasking ability
⦁ Good written and spoken communication skills in English, working knowledge of Chinese is a strong advantage.
⦁ Team player with strong interpersonal and collaborative skills with ability to work in cross functional matrix team.
⦁ Self-driven, resourceful problem solver with a ‘can do’ mentality
The start-up environment is a dynamic, fluid environment. This is a role for individuals with a deep passion to create market impact and is nimble, resourceful, and adaptable.  As a pioneer member of the company, the successful candidate will enjoy the satisfaction of blazing the company, personal career growth & sharing in the fruits of labour. The ideal candidate is one who enjoys problem-solving, is a resourceful, multi-tasker with the resilience and perseverance to drive success in a people-centric culture where integrity is the core value and quality a given.
COMPANY BACKGROUND
Kosmode Health Singapore Pte Ltd, a National University of Singapore start-up, is a Singapore-based Holding company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in Suzhou, China.
KosmodeHealth aims to expand access to health from nature as Asia’s trusted business enabler, to companies in the Agrifood and Biomedical industry, to resolve the following issues:
1. Agrifood industry:
i. High cost of plant extractions limiting mass-market access to quality-assured plant health ingredients.
ii. High wastage of food processing side-stream (such as spent barley after beer brewery, spent corn, spent toufu etc).
2. Biomedical Industry:
iii. High cost and issues of animal protein scaffold in 3D cell culture.
iv. Limited range and standardized scaffolds being unable to meet the varied growth needs of diverse cell types.
KosmodeHealth’s triple technology platform consists of:
⦁ Better, sustainable, halal certifiable plant extraction technology
⦁ Method of formulating Plant Protein Composite (PPCTM) Bio-ink
⦁ Precise, controllable 3D bioprinting technology.
The plant extraction expertise has been utilised to extract bioactive from botanical & also to reclaim bioactive from food processing by-products. KosmodeHealth has formulated a Starchless Protein Fibre noodles from nutrients reclaimed from spent barley grains – a by-product of beer and malt production.
Protein extracted from by-products can also be formulated into PPCTM Bio-ink with the 2nd technology and 3D printed into PPCTM scaffold with the 3rd technology.

Must have skills

Food Processing

Food Science

Food product development

Food Packaging

Food Manufacturing

Nice to have skills

Biomedical Engineering

biomedical science

Research

Functional Food

User Research

Kosmode Health Singapore

 
Kosmode Health Singapore Pte Ltd is a Food Science Technology start-up, incorporated with the mission to expand access to health from nature. Anchored on a triple technology platform, KosmodeHealth’s aspire to resolve the following four issues in two industries - food and biomedical industry. 
1. Food industry:
i. High cost of plant extractions limiting mass market access to quality assured plant health ingredients.
ii. High wastage of food processing side-stream (such as spent barley after beer brewery, spent corn, spent toufu etc).
2. Biomedical Industry:
iii. High cost and issues of animal proteins as bio-ink material for 3D bioscaffold printing.
iv. Limited range of 3D bioscaffold to meet the varied cell culture microenvironments needed for different cell types.
As KosmodeHealth expands our business operations, we are seeking talents who thrive on solving industry problems, is a resourceful, multi-tasker with the resilience and perseverance to drive success in people-centric culture where integrity is the core value and quality a given. 
The start-up environment is a dynamic, fluid environment. This is a role for individuals with a deep passion to create market impact and is nimble, resourceful and adaptable.  As a pioneer member of the company, the successful candidate will enjoy the satisfaction of blazing company, personal career growth & sharing in the fruits of labour. 