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.

Role Description

Are you a Technologist who is passionate about medical food and food technology and do you want to assure highest product quality to fulfill the needs for our patients and work in a cross functional team in the state-of-the-art research centre? Continue reading!

Responsibilities

Your Mission: Working on compliancy for the product portfolio in Advanced Medical Nutrition
As a Product Technologist, member of our Research and Innovation Team, you will drive finished goods product development ensuring on time and quality delivery against business expectations.
The key role of this function is to ensure business continuity and deliver secure, productivity and compliance projects taking into account our medical, internal and consumer standards.
You will work in cross functional teams with Operations, Regulatory, Supply Points QA, Medical Affairs, Specification Management, Marketing , Quality and Food Safety.
Activities are focused on Recipe development: recipe design, bench top trials, sensory, functional testing, supporting execution of pilot plant and factory trials, result interpretation and reporting, compiling/updating all technical documentation for each product.
You are a product technologist who likes to analyse facts and figures and is focused on bringing improvements. You will report to the Sr Technologist in the team.

Requirements

• Ensure products can be implemented on production scale to achieve targeted product performance and operational efficiencies to produce safe medical nutrition. Execution of Pilot plant trials and production trials are key.
• Contribute to root cause analysis and bring smart solutions to the team.
We are looking for a Product Technologist with:
• A Master degree in Food Technology
• 2 -3 years of work experience in a similar position in an R&D environment in Food Industry
• Passion for food, medical food is a plus.
• Expertise in technology of powders (spray drying, blending), liquids and dairy
• Hands on , analytical, result driven.
• Interest in fact & figures and statistics
• Interest in analytical methods
• Team worker
• Resilient
• Good communication skills in English
• Fast learner

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Robin Hiariej.