R&D Scientist

Kerry Group

About The Position

We are seeking a passionate and technically skilled RD&A Process Scientist to join our Coffee Innovation team. This role focuses on developing and optimizing coffee processing technologies, including roasting, extraction, and drying methods. The ideal candidate will contribute to product innovation, process scale-up, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality coffee solutions.

Requirements

Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemistry
3+ years’ experience of hands-on Research and Development.
Experience at pilot scale and production environments.
Demonstrate an ability for multi-tasking, in planning and time management
Competence in extraction technology.
Competence in writing technical documents such as research reports, SOPs, etc. Proficiency with Excel or other data processing/visualization software is desirable.

Responsibilities

To lead and/or participate in Commercial Coffee projects.
To lead and/or participate in scale up, process optimization and innovation projects for coffee with R&D and production.
To support ideation and implementation of PIP projects.
Set clear priorities, goals and objectives for multi-disciplinary cross-functional project teams that create a competitive advantage for the business.
Partner with Innovation, Beverage EUM and Business Development to ensure R&D objectives are aligned with business requirements and evolving market conditions
Ensure technical reports, standard operating procedure (SOP's) and scientific presentations are accurate and kept up to date.
Contribute to training team members on roasting, extraction that can add value to Kerry's coffee team.