Job area: Sciences appliquées
Activity: Baking
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Contract type: Permanent Contract
Experience: 1 to 3 years

Contribute to an exciting mission
What will your daily life look like?

Within our entity Lesaffre Kenya, you will ensure product quality and support innovation by conducting baking tests, monitoring performance, handling non-conformities, and providing technical support for new product development.

Your missions :

Running yeast comparative test
Carrying out baking test from time to time for bread improvers, mixes, and release agents to ascertain the quality of the final product before release to the market
Reporting any non-conformance or deviations in analysis and baking test
Maintaining records and preparing statistical reports to evaluate quality performance and sharing with respective department
Maintaining high hygiene standards in baking lab
Suggesting any ideas for continuous improvement in baking lab and process in general
Dealing with complaint and preparing report to respective department
Giving technical support to the formulator for NPD

Make a personal impact
That makes you the ideal candidate

Diploma or bachelor’s degree in food science or in the bakery industry. Laboratory experience and testing ability.

Technical Skills :

Strong knowledge of confectionery and cake decoration
Understanding the needs of the market & customer
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Soft Skills :

Ability to prioritize daily activities to meet client/internal needs within established timelines in a fast-paced environment
Ability to monitor and report on assigned tasks, goals, and objectives
Listening to different perspectives and showing flexibility
Ability to work with different personalities/teams, build collaboration and consensus
Customer oriented ideology

Let’s take on tomorrow’s challenges together

A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a €3 billion turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,000 employees and 96 nationalities.

On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners, and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food, health, naturalness and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.

To nourish 9 billion people, in a healthy way, in 2050 by making the most of our planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.

Working together to better nourish and protect the planet.