Co-Founder, Dairy Jobs
John Watson FIFST
Dairy manufacturing specialist and founder of Watson Dairy Consulting
50+ years in dairy manufacturing
Fellow of the Institute of Food Science & Technology
Member of the Society of Dairy Technology
About John
John Watson has over 50 years of hands-on experience in dairy manufacturing and dairy projects. After a career in dairy manufacturing, he founded the independent consultancy Watson Dairy Consulting in 1998. Since then he has worked with dairy manufacturers and investors across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including Turkey, the UAE, Pakistan, India, Iran, Denmark and Spain.
His experience covers the whole dairy sector, from liquid milk, UHT and cheese to milk powders, whey and infant formula. In 2023 he was an invited expert panellist for the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, speaking on infant formula manufacturing.
John is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science & Technology (FIFST) and a longstanding member of the Society of Dairy Technology.
At Dairy Jobs, John brings that experience to recruitment. General recruiters can only read a CV; John can test whether a candidate really understands an evaporator, a cheese plant or an infant formula quality system. He also writes many of the articles on this site, covering dairy job descriptions, dairy employers by country and the dairy industry worldwide.
Watson Dairy Consulting
For dairy plant projects, process advice and technical consultancy, visit John's consultancy website.
Visit dairyconsultant.co.uk