Food Technologist

WhatIF Foods (Singapore) is looking for a Food Technologist to join our team. Could this be you?

Our Food technologist is an innovative and creative team player who is able to collaborate across functional boundaries with his / her strong inter-personal and communication skills, one who is not afraid to tread into unfamiliar territory to create new opportunities and competitive advantages for the company.

About WhatIF Foods:
What IF Foods is a planet-positive food company that works literally from the ground up, with a mission to bring about a Better Better. WhatIF Foods is taking action right now through ingenious product development and innovations that aim at reconnecting with partner farming communities, restoring our soils and replenishing us for a better future.

We are excited for you to join us as a WhatIF REgener - be part of this passionate, vibrant and fun team who bring to the world foods that are better for our soils, better for our souls, and better for all of our futures

What you will be doing
- To develop nutritious, healthy and tasty food products with a low environmental impact

**For Projects in the Aspire Stage (Conceptualisation, Prototype Development and Testing)**
- Proactively research trends in the market, predicting future insights and creating novel processes and methodologies by integrating best-in-class literature.
- Identify new potential products, processes, and technology platforms for the Group and plan projects to progress them.

**For Projects in the Discover Stage (Proof of Concept)**
- Be responsible to create and develop products, equipment, formulas, processes, analytical methods and Intellectual Property that have the capability to scale and achieve reasonable yields with acceptable cost matrices/affordability.
- Prepare and evaluate product costings based on raw materials and manufacturing costs.
- Aid with experiments and trials to support Patent drafting and filing

**For Projects in the Translate Stage (Scale up from Concept to Pilot)**
- Be responsible to bring the Group’s Intellectual Property and Patents from a prototype stage to a pilot stage, testing and iterating along the way.
- Work on Pilot equipment design
- Carry out process optimization by evaluating and analysing results obtained from trials, making adjustments to product, process, and know-how in order for pilot to be successful.
- Put into place a policy of continuous improvement in parallel with the production process
- Develop first Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Process Workflows for production and scale-up.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders from various functions, in order to ensure smooth project delivery.

**For Projects in the Size Stage (Scale up from Pilot to Industrial Scale)**
- Provide Product and Technology know-how to enable the operations and manufacturing team on achieving an optimal equipment design and planning of industrial line.

**Across Projects of all stages**:

- Work with cross functional teams for innovation and commercial development
- Support commercialisation strategies with data, critical insights and unique selling propositions (USPs).
- Travel for the purposes of WhatIF foods Project Development Work to customers, partners, suppliers, etc.
- Confer and work with attachment students and colleagues to conduct analysis of research projects, interpret test results, or develop non-standard tests.

**With Customers**
- Represent the Group’s products and technologies in front of potential customers and provide strong follow-up and support.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum Degree in food engineering/food innovation OR at least 4 years of relevant working experience in food technology, Intellectual Property transfer, scale-up and commercialization, with relevant educational background.
- Ability to contribute in a fast-paced start-up work environment; ability to think out of the box, challenge conventional thinking, striving for breakthrough innovation with an entrepreneurial attitude.
- Understanding of process engineering and food properties
- Familiarity with processes involving regenerative crops
- Familiarity with plant-based food process and product development
- Possess excellent time-management, organization skills, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Outstanding communication skills, with high level of proficiency in both written and spoken English
- Excellent inter-personal skills with the ability to work effectively in a team
- Must be environmentally conscious