Pilot Plant Specialist (m/f/d)
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Job Purpose and Impact
The Pilot Plant Specialist will carry out the company's pilot production activities and studies to develop new and current projects and produce prototypes while following established food safety, environmental and health and safety procedures and policies. In this role, you will be a key member of the product development team by taking operational responsibility of the pilot plant.
Key Accountabilities
- Run daily activities the pilot plant, equipment and utilities.
- Perform application work in lab or pilot plant on development projects and perform analytical and chemical lab analyses on prototypes or raw materials and record results.
- Coordinate and conduct customer visits to the pilot plant, based on company procedures.
- Develop recipes, processes and formulation based on customer requests and projects.
- Visit production lines for product trials when needed and organize, observe and follow up the production trials on the large-scale production and support on processing.
- Evaluate and report the results of application work of lab and pilot plant on development projects.
- Collaborate with Procurement in the search and approval of new ingredients and suppliers and maintain supply inventory, ordering supplies, package and raw materials.
- Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in food science or food engineering (e.g. Food and Feed Technology / /Animal Nutrition)
- Minimum of two years of work experience in a production environment (food, feed or chemical production)
- Fluent in both English and German
- Knowledge in analytical methods (chemical and physical methods)
- Experience with experimental design, data analysis, and pilot plant management.
- Experience in working with formulation and recipes
Preferred Qualifications
- Computer proficiency.
- Experience collaborating across functional areas and outstanding customer focus.
- Project Management knowledge and skills
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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
Additionally, you can expect:
Modern office and meeting rooms, co-working spaces and a newly built company building just 15 minutes by car from Linz
Generous flextime and home office options
Social events where fun is guaranteed (barbecue, company outing, Christmas party)
A complimentary organic fruit basket, hot drinks and a meal allowance for our healthy freshly cooked lunch
Life and AD&D insurance, paid by the employer
Company doctor including health-related packages
Shower facilities in the company (for all sports enthusiasts)
Interested? Then apply today!
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For legal reasons, we would like to point out that a basic salary of €3000gross per month (based on a 38-hour week) is provided for this position. The actual remuneration depends on training, experience and individual skills and can therefore be significantly higher.
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