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On-site in Castellón de la Plana +1·Full-time·Added 3 months ago (last checked 22 Oct)
27 open roles
Our summary
- Hours
- Monday to Friday
- Work mode
- On-site, Castellón de la Plana / Castelló de la Plana
- Contract
- Full-time
- Education
- Higher vocational training (FP Grado Superior)
- Driving licence
- Own vehicle





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No sponsorship mentioned, and this kind of work is rarely sponsored in Spain.
Skills
This job advert was originally written in Spanish.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Higher education in Hospitality.
- Demonstrable experience in traditional professional cooking.
- Versatility for both traditional recipes and innovation cooking.
- Organizational capacity, responsibility, initiative, and a proactive attitude to work in a dynamic industrial team.
- Availability to travel.
- Knowledge of or familiarity with the agri-food industry environment.
- Own vehicle is essential for daily access to the factory facilities.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
What we offer you
- Stable full-time employment contract from Monday to Friday on office hours.
- Remuneration according to the merit and experience provided by the candidate.
- Integration into a consolidated industrial group.
The role
Benfood is a food production plant specializing in the manufacture of ready-to-eat products and tailor-made solutions for the hospitality and retail channels.
As experts in large-scale manufacturing, our absolute priorities are food and occupational safety, directing this vacancy toward the improvement of our current assortment and the development of new references by leveraging the company's expertise and facilities.
In this context, we are looking to hire an Innovation Cook to define and prepare the gastronomic base of our recipes in the test kitchen prior to their industrial implementation.
What you'll do
Reporting to the Factory Director, the main functions will be:
- To prepare, adjust, and improve culinary recipes in the laboratory phase, with a fundamentally gastronomic criterion, taking into account the possibilities of industrial processes.
- To work in coordination with the group's marketing and R&D team.
- To prepare product tests, samples, and organize tastings, both for the internal team and for clients.
- To work in close collaboration with the technical team for the industrial scaling of the developed recipes.
- To guarantee the strict maintenance of order, cleanliness, and raw material control in the test kitchen, under industrial hygiene regulations.
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