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  • Posted: Dec 22, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Cape Herb and Spice has grown from entrepreneurial roots into a global player and now employs over 700 people and operates over 3 sites in Cape Town. Centered around innovation and quality, Cape Herb and Spice gives any candidate a great opportunity to gain extensive experience and build an exciting career. From the tip of Africa to the tip of the tongue ...
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    Development Technologist

    Purpose:

    • Cape Herb & Spice is looking for a Development Technologist to fulfil a vital role within our Tea category, focusing primarily on a key local customer’s expressing creative flair in helping develop commercially viable and delicious tea concepts in line with current trends. 

    Key Functional Areas:

    • Execute the product development process within given deadlines, ensuring product conforms to country-specific legislation as well as customer-specific regulations on product and packaging.
    • All stages of the development process to be followed and filed meticulously.
    • This procedure involves
    • HACCP compliance
    • Recipe development and tastings
    • Raw material costings
    • Supplier interaction
    • Factory implementation in terms of factory trials and travel tests
    • Artwork approvals
    • Specification generation and maintenance
    • Technical support to both QA department and sales teams alike
    • Play your role in maintaining the compliance to business food safety, ethical, religious and sustainability certifications
    • Effective execution of launches through thorough communication, consultation and involvement of internal departments.

    Required Knowledge & Skills:

    • Computer Literacy (Microsoft Office)
    • Excel skills – Intermediate to advanced
    • Driver’s license essential

    Required Prior Learning/ Experience:

    • Degree in Food Technology or Food Science
    • 2-3 years’ experience within an NPD role

    Personal Characteristics:

    • Deadline driven
    • Great Time management skills
    • Commercially minded
    • Meticulous
    • Passionate foodie
    • Good communicator
    • Creative thinker
    • Team Player
    • Reliable
    • Strong interpersonal skills
    • Optimistic solution finder

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    Junior Food Technologist

    Key Functional Areas

    • Creation and/or updating and maintenance of raw material, packaging, in-process and finished product specifications.
    • Review of technical supplier documentation on new suppliers / raw materials required in new developments. Liaise with suppliers on CHS requirements.
    • On-going review of labels and specifications (final product and in process specifications)
    • Assist in conducting factory trials, travel tests and 1st productions on new lines.
    • Review of product labels for legislative and customer compliance. Must have a strong capability to research and interpret legislation for multiple markets e.g., South African, USA, Australia, Europe
    • Technical support to other departments: QA, Operations and Sales alike.
    • Support in the meticulous execution of the Development Process by following procedures.
    • Ensure product detail on internal system, in departments and on shared drive are all accurate and product is as per customer requirement.
    • Support in the execution of shelf-life testing as set out in the shelf-life schedule.
    • Execute technical projects as set out by the NPD Technologist.
    • Executing the Supplier Quality Assurance process.

    Required Prior Learning/Experience:

    • Bachelor’s degree / Advanced Diploma Tertiary qualification in Food Science, Food Technology, Consumer Science.
    • 1-2 years’ experience in an NPD Food Technologist role.

    Required Knowledge and Skills:

    • Own transport necessary.
    • Proficient in MS Office.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
    • Strong administrative and analytical ability.
    • Strong project management and coordination skill.
    • The ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

    Personal Characteristics:

    • Great Time Management skills.
    • Dynamic & quick thinking.
    • Solution-orientated.
    • Great attention to detail.
    • Ability to perform under pressure.
    • Proactive, team orientated and enthusiastic.
    • Optimistic & positive outlook.
    • Eager to learn and develop skills.
    • Passionate foodie.
    • Reliable, honest, and courteous.

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