Student worker

Oterra; Taastrup; On-site; DKK 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible hours

Career progression

Job summary

Oterra in Taastrup invites a bachelor’s or master’s student to join the Breeding team. You will work with plants, grow and cross them, perform chemical analyses, evaluate pigment content, and assist with extraction processes to test crops and breeding lines to develop food color prototypes.

Responsibilities include sowing in greenhouses, caring for plants, analyzing samples for pigment level and color shade, data handling, and teamwork in an international environment.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate is a bachelor's or master's student at the start of their program and has some experience with lab work and analyses.
• Person should be responsible, hardworking, and a good team player in a dynamic, international environment.

Responsibilities

• Sow plants in greenhouses and fields.
• Take care of, evaluate and harvest plants and seeds.
• Analyze plant samples, including pigment measurement and color shade.
• Assist with pigment extraction to develop food color prototypes.
• Data handling and management.

Skills

Lab work experience

Analytical skills

Team player

Biology knowledge

Education

Bachelor's student

Master's student

Tools

Laboratory analyses

Job description

Join Oterra in making natural food and beverages easy, for a sustainable and healthy world.

Headquartered in Denmark, with production sites in Europe, Latin America, Turkey, India and the US, we’re a passionate team of over 1500 team members in 30 countries worldwide, serving 120 markets globally. As the leading worldwide provider of natural colors, we offer food and beverage manufacturers an alternative to artificial colors. Food and health are at the heart of everything we do and every day over 400 million people eat a product with our colors in it. We believe that nature got it right the first time.

Meet your new team!

We are looking for a talented student worker to join our growing team. Based in our Taastrup breeding facilities, you will join a dedicated team that develops plants used as raw materials for our natural food colors.

What would your role look like?

As a student worker in the Breeding team, you will work with plants, growing and crossing them, performing chemical analyses, evaluating the pigment content, and assisting with extraction processes for testing various crops and breeding lines to develop food color prototypes.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Sowing plants in greenhouses and fields
• Taking care of, evaluating and harvesting the plants and seeds.
• Analyzing plant samples including sample preparation, measuring pigment level and composition and color shade to support breeding.
• Work on pigment extraction to produce food color prototypes.
• Data handling

Experience and skills required

• The ideal candidate is a bachelor's or master's student in the beginning of their program and has some experience with lab work and analyses.
• Personally, they should be responsible, hardworking, and a good team player who is able to work quickly and precisely in a dynamic and international environment.

What can we offer?

We can offer an exciting opportunity in an ambitious organization, where commitment is strong, and where we work with the purpose of improving our processes and results. We have an informal tone, and put a high value on teamwork, working together, and transparency.

We offer

• Flexible working conditions with up to 10-12 hours per week.
• Continuous opportunities for learning and career progression
• Employee discounts on range of attractions and products
• Health insurance

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