Food Technologist

Role snapshotTitle Food Technologist — Purchase & Quality Location Ahmedabad, Gujarat (on-site, with regular visits to manufacturing partners) Experience 0–2 years Education B.
Tech Food Technology, or M.
Sc Food Science / Food Technology Type Full-time About Not Rocket ScienceNot Rocket Science (NRS) makes ready-to-drink protein beverages — Protein Water, Protein Punch and new functional drinks — built to taste like drinks first, not supplements. We're an Ahmedabad-based brand under Nutrifuture Solutions LLP, sold across our website, Amazon, quick commerce and general trade. Product and formulation sit at the centre of the company. The roleYou'll be the quality and technical layer between our raw materials and the bottle on the shelf. Half your time goes to quality — checking what comes in, what gets produced and what gets printed on the label. The other half supports purchase and production planning alongside the Head of Purchase & Manufacturing. It's a hands-on role for someone who wants to learn beverage manufacturing end to end, fast.

What you'll do
Incoming quality
• Review Certificates of Analysis for every incoming lot of protein, flavours, sweeteners and packaging; flag deviations before material is released
• Maintain approved-supplier specs and track supplier performance over time
• Arrange third-party lab testing when a lot or a claim needs verification Production quality
• Attend trial and production runs at manufacturing partners; verify batch parameters against spec (pH, Brix, fill volume, sealing, temperature)
• Maintain batch records, retained samples and a shelf-life tracker for every SKU
• Investigate and document consumer or trade complaints back to batch level Labelling and regulatory
• Check every pack artwork change against FSSAI labelling and nutrition-declaration requirements before it goes to print
• Keep FSSAI licences, product approvals and test reports current and organised
• Track regulatory updates that affect our ingredients, claims or labels Purchase and planning support
• Raise and follow up purchase orders for raw and packaging material
• Track inventory of key inputs against the production plan; flag shortfalls early
• Coordinate dispatch of materials to manufacturing partners New product support
• Help run bench trials, sensory panels and stability studies for new SKUs
• Document formulation changes and their test results
• What we're looking forMust-haves
• B.
Tech Food Technology or M.
Sc Food Science / Food Technology
• Working knowledge of FSSAI regulations, especially labelling and nutrition declarations
• Comfort with basic lab measurements — pH, Brix, moisture, titratable acidity
• Meticulous with records: you notice when a number on a CoA doesn't match the spec
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills
• Willing to travel to manufacturing partners regularly, sometimes at short notice
• Clear written and spoken English and Gujarati or Hindi Nice-to-haves
• Internship or work experience in a beverage, dairy or nutraceutical plant
• Exposure to hot-fill, aseptic or retort processing
• Familiarity with whey or plant protein ingredients
• Some purchase or vendor-coordination experience
• Why join
• You'll see the full journey of a beverage — raw material, formulation, trial, production, label, shelf — in your first six months
• Direct exposure to R&D: new SKUs are developed in-house, and you'll work on them from bench trial to launch
• A small team where your quality calls are acted on, not filed away
• Room to grow into a Quality & Regulatory lead role as manufacturing scales