R&D Technician
R&D Technician
As an R&D Technician at FrieslandCampina, you will play a key role in shaping the future of food innovation. You’ll prepare and execute experiments, analyze results, and maintain R&D equipment and systems to ensure smooth operations within safety and quality guidelines. Your work will part of our developers in driving new product development, optimizing formulations, and ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of excellence. If you're passionate about science, innovation, and making a real impact in the world of nutrition, we invite you to join our team and help us bring new, groundbreaking products to life!
Key Objectives:
Prepare and execute experiments and tests, analyse results and maintain all R&D equipment and systems, within test set-up and health and safety guidelines and procedures, in order to contribute to the realisation of R&D projects and objectives and to optimally support researchers and developers in the execution of their job.
What we ask
- Education: Bachelor's Degree (Food technology, Food Engineering or Food science)
- Experience: At least 2 years experience
- Skills:
- Product development, food technology knowledge
- Fluent in English
- Good communication skill & stakeholder management skill
- Detailed and careful to handle detailed lab scale/testing criteria.
What we offer
• A purpose-driven organization committed to long-term impact, bringing better nutrition to the world. We offer a professional, collaborative, and inclusive work environment to help you expand your knowledge.
• We provide the right level of autonomy and trust, along with a competitive salary and benefits package that recognizes and rewards individual performance and potential.
• We offer diverse training and development programs to support your professional growth.
Vacancy description
- Follow Company’s regulations, including, not limited to, Food Safety & Quality, Safety – Health –Environment
- Conduct lab-scale experiments for NPD (New Product Development) projects as well as alternative-material projects
- Follow up internal taste test Supervise a lab scale for new products and product development
- Follows production trial
- Report shelf-life testing for new products and product development
- New packaging and label checking on technical information
- Make statistical overview of new products and product development
- Control file system/glass wares/equipment in lab
- Analyse samples in cooperation with QC
- Conduct evaluation for raw/pack materials as well as finished products at independent laboratory
- And other tasks as assigned by his/her superiors
- Other tasks assigned by the Line Manager.
Team Details
Our story
You and us, we go way back. Maybe you grew up with our products, but you have certainly seen our iconic brands on the shelves. Did you know that FrieslandCampina is one of the largest dairy cooperation's in the world, owned by 10,564 member dairy farmers. Every day our farmers and 22,961 and employees in 32 countries try to get the most out of milk, from grass till glass. To us, milk is not just milk. It is more than that. It is something magical to our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness. It's not just about what we do, but who we are. Driven by our purpose, to provide better nutrition for the world and good living for our farmers, now and for generations to come.
We believe in the power of 'We'
We are constantly looking for new business opportunities to innovate, contribute and bring high-quality nutrition to the world. We build on a high performance and inclusive culture, act with a growth mindset and a go-getter mentality. That means people here are open, friendly, and pragmatic. We are team players that seek collaborations built on trust and respect - and embrace the power of differences in order to grow together.