About Trisco Foods

Trisco Foods began in 1875 and more than 150 years later, it is still family-owned and run by the Tristram family, now in its fifth generation.

That heritage shapes how we work: we do things properly, with a focus on quality, service and deep industry expertise. Our traditional range of syrups, sauces, toppings and bakery fillings, including our internationally distributed Venezia Syrups & Sauces, is made for the foodservice industry, and we support customers from product development through to production at scale.

Today, Trisco is as much about innovation as tradition. Our Exact brand was created to meet a real healthcare need, giving aged care residents living with dysphagia a better solution through products like Precise Thick-N INSTANT, and our Enprocal range provides high-protein nutrition support. From our base in Queensland and our manufacturing site in Colorado (USA), a growing team across several countries brings the same family values to everything we make.

Our products reach customers across Australia, New Zealand, North America, Asia and Europe — and we need a hands-on food technologist to help shape what comes next.

About the role

We have an opening for a Food Technologist in our Research and Development (R&D;) team, reporting to our Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Working on-site at our Carole Park facility, you'll develop, improve and scale up products across the full Trisco portfolio — sauces and syrups, Precise and Enprocal — from concept through to commercial launch.

This is a genuinely hands-on role. You'll spend your time at the bench, in pilot trials and on the factory floor, co-developing products with customers and turning their needs into products we can make reliably at scale. You'll also generate the technical data that supports our claims and keep existing products compliant, stable and cost-effective.





There's variety here too: international travel is part of the role, including to our Colorado site and to customers and distributors in our export markets.

Great products, made properly, at scale.

What you'll do

- You'll take products from brief to launch and make sure they work as well in the factory as they do at the bench.
- Develop new sauces, syrups, toppings and nutrition products, and line extensions, following our Opportunity Scoring and Stage-Gate process.
- Formulate and optimise products using hydrocolloids (such as xanthan gum, gum acacia and gellan), proteins and other functional ingredients.
- Plan and run bench, pilot and factory trials, and manage scale-up and hand-over to Operations.
- Design and run shelf-life, stability and sensory studies, and measure product performance, including rheology and International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) testing.
- Prepare and maintain specifications, formulations, labels and nutrition information panels (NIPs), and support compliance with the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) Code, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other export market requirements.
- Keep R&D; records current in line with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standards (BRCGS) and our quality system.
- Work with Marketing and Sales to turn customer needs into technical briefs, and partner with Production,



Quality Assurance (QA) and Supply Chain on new and changed formulations.
- Evaluate alternative ingredients and suppliers to improve cost, supply security and performance, and liaise with suppliers, research partners and external laboratories.

About you

We're looking for a practical, curious food technologist who enjoys solving problems with data and can take a product all the way from the bench to the production line.

- A Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Technology or a related discipline.
- 3–5 years' hands-on experience in innovation, R&D; or new product development (NPD) within food or beverage manufacturing.
- Proven experience taking products from bench to factory scale.
- Working knowledge of hydrocolloids, ingredient functionality and food processing, including thermal processing, viscosity control and water activity.
- Experience designing and reporting shelf-life, stability and sensory trials.
- Understanding of the FSANZ Code, labelling requirements and food safety systems (HACCP, BRCGS or equivalent).
- Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to manage several projects at once.

It would be great if you also have

- Experience developing sauces, syrups or toppings for foodservice, quick-service restaurant (QSR) or food manufacturing customers.
- Experience in medical, clinical or specialised nutrition, such as dysphagia, enteral or high-protein products.
- Experience with rheology, texture analysis or IDDSI testing.
- Familiarity with export market regulations (USA, Europe or Asia).
- Experience with formulation and specification software, such as Genesis R&D.;

If this sounds like you, please apply and include your resume and a short note on a product you've taken from concept to launch and the part you played.

📌 Food Technologist (R&D) (Carole Park)
🏢 Trisco Foods
📍 Carole Park