Laboratory Technician

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Food organisation, based in Utrecht Netherlands.

The Company

Our client is a multinational food company dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible. This mission guides our client's 2.250 employees in the Netherlands and more than 100.000 worldwide on an everyday basis. R&D is an important basis of the work they do in nutrition and health. They collaborate with partners, for example in academia, suppliers and healthcare, our client aims to identify new nutritional intervention opportunities and develop innovative product forms. Their largest innovation centre is located on Utrecht Science Park, the Netherlands. It is a state-of-the-art centre for the development of new nutrition product concepts for Early Life Nutrition and Advanced Medical Nutrition. Our client creates products that provide clinically proven health benefits to vulnerable consumers - infants, toddlers, expecting mothers, the elderly and patients.

Role Description

The Food Science & Technology Laboratory is one of the centres of excellence working for the two Divisions (Early Life Nutrition and Advanced Medical Nutrition). The mission of the Food Science & Technology Laboratory is to support Early Life Nutrition and Advanced Medical Nutrition R&D activities by answering physical chemistry and sensorial questions and Securing the status and condition of equipment within the scope of the Food Science and technology Laboratory according to ISO 9001 standards”.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, perform and report physical chemical product analyses;
• Support new product development and product improvement projects;
• Interact with colleagues in Product and Process Development, external laboratories and suppliers.
• Securing the status and condition of equipment within the scope of the Food Science and technology
• Support Product Development during tasting sessions
• Report to the team leader Shelf life

Requirements

• Finished minimal MBO-niveau 4 in Food Science, Fysical analysis or similar by experience;
• 0-5 years of relevant work experience with physical chemical analyses in food business
• Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English
• Comfortable working in a dynamic organization, with various functional disciplines;
• Personal skills: strong organizational skills, pro-active, client-oriented, eye for quality, analytic and creative mind, open, enthusiastic and team player.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Rowin van der Zwaan.