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🥝 Research & development officer specialised aquatic feeds

Abagold | hermanus, South-Africa | Posted June 08, 2026

Job Description

Introduction

A wonderful opportunity has become available for a Research & Development Officer within the leading Aquaculture Feed manufacturer in Hermanus, Western Cape.

A short list will be drawn up of the candidates that apply and only shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.

Duties & Responsibilities

Monitoring and improving the performance of our current products and the development of new products for specialised aquatic feeds through client engagement, research and development. Our primary focus is aquaculture, but pet foods will be a portion of this.

Product development will include attending all client engagement sessions with the sales and marketing manager, facilitating regular updates and engagements between the SAF team, clients and nutritionists in the development of new diets, converting new formulations into job cards for clear communication to the production team including client product spec requirements and packaging for finished good...

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