Join the Tibaldi team as a full-time Food Technologist based in Clayton Victoria.

Our Story

Founded in 1934, the Tibaldi family of butchers had a dream to provide Australian’s with only the finest cuts of meats processed the traditional way using authentic Italian recipes.

Over 80 years later not much has changed. Today, Tibaldi is a major supplier to the retail, route and food service industry across Australia. Our state‑of‑the‑art facilities in Clayton excel industry standards using leading technology.

Our product range spans across traditional Italian salami, ham, bacon, traditional smallgoods and fresh meat including a range of Outdoor Bred pork.

That’s Tradition. That’s Tibaldi. Tibaldi.com.au

Your Story

As a Food Technologist at Tibaldi, you will be part of the Research and Development team based in Clayton, Victoria reporting to the NPD Manager.

To be successful in this role you will have a minimum of 3 years relevant experience inclusive of smallgoods or meat manufacturing experience.

You will be involved in:

Using your experience everyday researching, developing, managing food product innovation projects within our business.

Planning and leading continuousimprovement and technical development activities including product trials (e.g. system and document creation and maintenance, pilot plant equipment, product trial protocols, results interpretation and final trial report preparation).

Project management for end-to-end R & D project implementation from pre-production to commercial launch (e.g. costings, sourcing ingredients, data collection, food safety procedures, refinement of briefs and quality and assurance).

NPD including Stage and Gate processes, proposal and review of relevant materials and documentation.





Creating and maintaining product data base/s / registers for project and current and new products including CoOL, NIP, cooking instructions, SOPs/WI and product specifications

Perform sensory evaluations, shelf-life validation and verification testing

Our FMCG meat products, will require you to use your knowledge of:

Product development specifically within FMCG, meat products or smallgoods manufacturing

Meat import and export requirements

FMCG audits (e.g., IPMP, AQIS and SEDEX audits)

Food manufacturing GMP standards

Food safety managements systems (e.g., FSANZ, SQF, HACCP, CFMSR, Yum!, Costco, Aldi, FSSC 22000)

Food labelling legislation

As part of the Research and Development team you will:

Be an adaptable, innovative team player, willing to work in a fast-paced environment with good communication skills and good sense of judgement on confliction priorities.

Work collaboratively to partner with business stakeholders including from Operations, Production, Quality and Assurance, Research and Development, Finance, Maintenance, Sales, Marketing and HR.

Be ‘hands-on’ with everyone from our entry level roles to the CEO.

May be able to work from home on occasions (not a permanent arrangement).

Our Ways of Working

As part of our Tibaldi team, you will be able to:

participate in our Tibaldi Team Product Orders program that enables you to purchase our products at a below-retail price

access free in office car parking

access our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

participate in training and development courses tailored to your needs; both on-site and off-site.

travel to work on public transport as we are conveniently located close to public transport including Westall or Clayton train stations.

Pre-Employment Medical

A pre-employment medical may form part of the recruitment process.

That’s Tradition. That’s Tibaldi. Tibaldi.com.au

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