About La Rocca Creative Cakes
La Rocca Creative Cakes, one of North America’s leading dessert manufacturers, has an exciting opportunity for a Product Developer to join their team in Richmond Hill ON.
The ideal candidate for this role will be a trained pastry chef with large scale manufacturing experience. Our new Developer will need to be driven, ambitious, methodical, process oriented and able to work independently and in a team environment.
- Great opportunity for a Product Developer to join an innovative and rapidly growing firm in Ontario
- Get to be creative every day by joining our passionate and forward-thinking team
- Competitive remuneration package, sense of ownership, and a great opportunity for growth
What you get to do!
- Create & Innovate! – Keep up-to-date on the newest trends, flavours, concepts, processes and continuously explore avenues to incorporate these ideas into new and exciting products
- Develop products for midsize and large customer accounts with a strong focus on operational constraints, costing parameters, and company initiatives
- Responsible for developing accurate work instructions, establishing acceptable and unacceptable parameters, ensuring cost and ultimately the integrity of product from conception to commercialization
- Responsible for developing within company guardrails and understanding regulatory requirements and customer needs
- Supports and leads production trials and first production runs with cross-functional teams (Quality Assurance, Scheduling, Procurement)
- Participates in cost optimization initiatives with cross-functional teams (Operations, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Finance)
- Supports operations team with troubleshooting technical challenges related to product formulations
- Participates in the development of best practices and departmental procedures
What we need!
- 5+ years experience in product development in a food manufacturing environment (bakery industry preferred)
- Culinary institute graduate, Pastry Chef, Red Seal or foreign equivalency required
- Ability to skillfully prepare desserts/cakes/cheesecake/squares and beyond
- Experience in commercializing new products in a large manufacturer setting an asset
- Strong knowledge of formulation design and food costing
- Versed in GMP, food safety, HACCP and other regulatory requirements preferred
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Project management skills/experience required
- Food service and retail market knowledge an asset
- Experience with recipe management software an asset
About the benefits
In exchange for your hard work and dedication, you will be rewarded with a competitive annual salary, dependent on your skills and experience. You will also have access to a wide range of benefits, including:
- A brand new innovation kitchen located minutes from the manufacturing facility
- Opportunity to participate in an extended medical, dental and vision benefits plan
- Focused in-house training and advancement
- Subsidised continuing education
- Social and team-building events, including seasonal parties
If you are innovative, passionate, and enjoy a challenge - apply to La Rocca Creative Cakes today!
Get social with us!
Instagram: @LaRoccaCakes (www.Instagram.com/LaRoccaCakes/) & @LaRoccaCreativeKitchen (www.Instagram.com/LaRoccaCreativeKitchen/)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaRoccaCakes
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