Food Product Development & R&D Intern
- Location
- Patna, Bihar, India
- Salary
- Not specified
- Company
- Akash pawar
Job description
• Role & Company / Project Overview Orizin is a modern food company focused on making everyday food more convenient, nutritious, tasty, and transparent. We believe better food should be built on thoughtful formulation, quality ingredients, meaningful nutrition, and honest communication. We are currently developing our first product, a high-protein instant oat breakfast, and building the foundation for a broader everyday food brand. We are looking for a hands-on Product Development & R&D Intern who understands food product development and wants to work directly with the founding team and product development experts to take products from concept and formulation through testing, refinement, and commercial readiness. • Key Responsibilities & Daily Duties - Product formulation: Support the development, testing, and refinement of food product formulations. - R&D and prototyping: Assist with ingredient trials, prototype preparation, formulation comparisons, and product improvement. - Ingredient research: Evaluate ingredients based on functionality, nutritional contribution, taste, texture, solubility, availability, and cost. - Sensory evaluation: Help assess taste, aroma, mouthfeel, texture, preparation experience, and overall product acceptability. - Quality assurance: Support quality checks, testing documentation, ingredient specifications, and product consistency. - Stability and shelf-life studies: Assist with appropriate testing plans and documentation in coordination with qualified laboratories and technical experts. - Manufacturer coordination: Work with contract manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, and testing laboratories on technical requirements and product trials. - Documentation: Maintain formulation records, trial observations, test results, specifications, and development reports. - Food safety and regulatory support: Assist in compiling relevant product information, ingredient documentation, and labelling inputs under expert guidance. - Commercial feasibility: Help assess ingredient costs, formulation feasibility, manufacturing requirements, and scalability. • Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience - Experience: Prior experience, internships, projects, or practical exposure in food product development, food R&D, formulation, food technology, or quality assurance preferred. - Education: A degree or relevant background in Food Technology, Food Science, Food Engineering, Dairy Technology, Nutrition, or a related discipline. - Understanding of food ingredients, formulation principles, food processing, and quality parameters. - Experience or familiarity with powders, instant mixes, breakfast products, protein-enriched foods, beverages, or similar categories is an advantage. - Strong analytical, research, documentation, and problem-solving skills. - Detail-oriented approach and willingness to test assumptions rather than rely only on theory. - Comfortable working directly with founders, suppliers, manufacturers, and technical experts. - A proactive attitude, learning mindset, and ability to take ownership of assigned responsibilities. - Willingness to relocate to Patna, Bihar, and work on-site. • Working Hours, Shifts & Location Details - Duration: 3-month paid internship, followed by a performance-based full-time opportunity. - Location: Patna, Bihar. - Work Mode: On-site. • Compensation & Benefits - A paid, hands-on internship with a defined three-month evaluation period. - Direct exposure to the founders and product development experts. - Practical experience taking a food product from an early concept towards commercial readiness. - Opportunities to work on formulation, ingredient selection, quality, testing, and manufacturing. - Meaningful responsibility and the opportunity to contribute to real product decisions. - Consideration for a full-time Product Development role after the evaluation period (compensation and terms discussed separately). • Application Instructions - Send your CV or resume via the provided application email with the subject line 'Product Development & R&D Intern | [Your Name]'. - Include a brief description of any relevant product development, formulation, R&D, quality, laboratory, or manufacturing experience. - Mention your specific contribution and outcome if you have worked on a food product or formulation project.