Kerry Hiring For RD&A Technician at Naas, County Kildare Full Time

About Kerry

Kerry is the world’s leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers’ most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

Kerry Group is looking for a RD&A Technician for Global Innovation Centre in Naas (Ireland).

About our Global Technology & Innovation Centre:
Naas is home to Kerry EMEA’s Global Technology & Innovation Centre. This state of the art facility has been designed to bring together all our capabilities and technologies in one location. The Centre offers our customers a truly unique relationship experience, working closely with our industry experts in the optimum environment allows them to see firsthand the technologies, innovation and value that we can offer them and their business. This in turn allows customers to develop the unique and innovative products they want, that can be delivered quickly to market and can differentiate their brand in the market place. The Centre facilitates our customers and employees expertise in a way that makes it easy to collaborate and deliver innovative, integrated solutions.

Key responsibilities

Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
Comply with all Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality requirements (FSSC22000, ISO9001, ISO14001 etc.). `

Duties will include:
Accurately weigh flavours

Accurately calculate dilutions as requested

Maintaining Raw Material and Flavour Stock – within shelf life

Ordering of raw materials and flavours from various Kerry Sites

Maintaining records pertaining to samples

Distributing correct samples to various departments and customers

Assist flavourists in setting up tasting sessions (may include making up of basic applications as per recipes)

Qualifications and skills

Secondary school completion certificate with Mathematics, essential.

Good attention to detail

Ability to perform routine tasks

Good interpersonal & exceptional organisational skills with the ability to work independently, as well as a member of a team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Must be able to change priorities and be flexible, when necessary

Good work ethic & time management skills, ability to work under pressure.

Computer literate – including Microsoft Outlook, Word & Excel.

Pro-active approach to problem solving & trouble shooting.

Kerry Group today is a world leader in Taste & Nutrition serving the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries and a leading consumer foods processing and marketing organisation in selected EU markets. With sales to over 140 countries worldwide, the Kerry organisation has grown to become a highly successful public company, having achieved sustained profitable growth with current annualised sales in excess of €5.8 billion. Launched as a public company in 1986, the market capitalisation of the Group has grown to a current level of approximately €12 billion. Kerry Group now employs over 24,000 people throughout its worldwide activities and operations.

We supply over 15,000 food, food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide. Kerry prides itself on continuous innovation, technological creativity and business excellence in every area of the business, striving to enhance leadership positions in our consumer foods business and across global food and ingredients markets.

We are looking for people with ambition, vision and a commitment to excellence in a dynamic business environment to achieve and sustain this growth on a long-term basis. In return we offer stimulating and rewarding careers from employee to management to leadership levels in a global food organisation.