R&D Specialist
Job Location:
Deventer - Netherlands
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Job Summary
Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe responsible and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain partnering with producers and customers to source make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with lifes essentials we enable businesses to grow communities to prosper and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers food service customers and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry beef egg alternative protein salt oils starches sweeteners cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
Location: Deventer (Netherlands) This is a site based role (Monday-Friday Days at the factory)
The R&D Expert Coatings & Fillings will manage research and development activities through effective trial coordination execution data analysis and stakeholder alignment as part of Food Innovation Cocoa & this role you will contribute to the delivery of innovation projects by supporting researchers with industrial trials scale-up activities technical evaluations and process optimization.
You will be accountable for supporting innovation and R&D activities ensuring effective translation of products and processes from pilot to manufacturing while maintaining strong collaboration with R&D Operations FSQR Supply Chain and customer-facing teams.
Key Accountabilities
- Plan and perform quality assurance for trials and keep continuous and active dialogues with technical service operations FSQR and other key stakeholders
- Lead trial preparation execution and follow-up activities to ensure timelines deliverables and project objectives are achieved
- Lead continuous improvement together with trial teams using measurable performance indicators and drive scientific method development in cooperation with researchers
- Ensure all standard operating procedures are followed and updated and trials comply to the safety program and quality requirements. Pprovide guidance during trial execution when needed
- Responsible for the setup monitoring recording and reporting of trial results with appropriate partners
- Work with technical service operations teams to ensure accurate formulations ingredient availability process readiness and successful industrial execution
- Support and lead scale-up activities in the factory by evaluating the impact of ingredients and process conditions on product quality and manufacturing performance
- Organize and facilitate trial meetings and follow-up discussions to ensure actions decisions and timelines are effectively managed
- Support small to medium innovation projects by coordinating plant activities and providing technical execution support
- Coordinate required sampling of raw materials and finished products to support projects and customer requests
- Support customer visits and plant tours when technical expertise is required
- Act as a liaison between R&D and operations to ensure successful production and commercialization readiness
- Approximately 10% travel is required to support manufacturing trials customer visits training activities and collaboration with regional R&D teams
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in food Science Food Technology Process Engineering Chemical Engineering or a related field or a related field or equivalent experience
- 03 years of relevant experience in product development process development manufacturing support industrial trials or scale-up activities
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a manufacturing and plant environment
- Fluent in Dutch and English
- Ability to work on-site in Deventer and build effective partnerships across functions
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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.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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About Company
Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.
