Head of Operations Advanced Analytical Chemistry (W/M)

Lesaffre; Hauts-de-France; Sur place; EUR 45 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Ein innovatives Unternehmen sucht einen Head of Operations für Advanced Analytical Chemistry. In dieser Schlüsselrolle leiten Sie ein Team von Fachleuten, optimieren die Nutzung modernster chromatographischer Technologien und gewährleisten höchste Sicherheitsstandards. Sie werden Teil eines dynamischen Umfelds, das sich der Erforschung und Entwicklung nachhaltiger Lösungen widmet. Wenn Sie eine Leidenschaft für analytische Chemie haben und in einem internationalen Team arbeiten möchten, ist dies die perfekte Gelegenheit für Sie, einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Zukunft der Fermentation zu nehmen.

Prestations

Familiengeführtes Unternehmen

Internationale Arbeitsumgebung

Sinnvolle Mission

Qualifications

• PhD und 5-10 Jahre Erfahrung in analytischer Chemie erforderlich.
• Umfassende Kenntnisse in Chromatographie und Massenspektrometrie sind Pflicht.

Responsabilités

• Leitung der technischen Plattform und des Teams von 15 Personen.
• Sicherstellung der Exzellenz in der Ausführung und Sicherheitsanforderungen.

Connaissances

Analytische Chemie

Teamführung

Chromatographie

Massenspektrometrie

Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit

Formation

PhD in Chemie

Outils

Chromatographie-Geräte

NMR

Description du poste

Company Description

A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a 2.7 billion euro turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,000 employees and more than 96 nationalities. On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners, and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food, health, naturalness, and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.

To nourish 9 billion people, in a healthy way, in 2050 by making the most of our planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.

Lesaffre – Working together to better nourish and protect the planet.

Job Description

Context:

Lesaffre RD&I aims to reveal the potential of microorganisms for a sustainable future. With our 170 years of expertise in microorganisms, Lesaffre RD&I has the capacity to identify, breed, collect, develop, and exploit strains with high potential, as well as to enrich the knowledge of their effects on human, animal, and plant health.

The Center of Excellence Analytical Sciences & Discovery mission is to determine and understand the molecular composition of matter to support research through the acquisition of safe, long-lasting physicochemical data to pave the way for innovations: molecules of interest, new processes, and products.

In order to strengthen the Center of Excellence Analytical Sciences and Discovery, we are looking for a Head of Operations Advanced Analytical Chemistry.

As our Head of Operations Advanced Analytical Chemistry, you will pilot the operation of the technical platform (15 people), in its human and technical dimensions. You will have a global vision of the platform and its evolution, ensuring optimal operation to address our scientific issues.

You will report directly to the Director of the Center of Excellence Analytical Sciences and Discovery.

Main Missions:

You will lead the technical platform (mainly chromatography equipment) by:

• Managing and animating the team
• Assisting managers in the technician team development.
• Adjusting resource availability to project needs by anticipating needs and organizing appropriate training.
• Ensuring excellence in execution and that the facility provides the highest level of expertise and service to meet group and project challenges: protocol improvement, cost efficiency, analytical throughput improvement, data quality and management, use of electronic lab notebook, safe and optimal laboratory organization.
• Being responsible for safety issues and ensuring high levels of exigence in safety requirements.
• Scouting new technologies and ensuring that the facility has access to state-of-the-art methodologies.
• Proposing and driving internal competence projects.
• Being responsible for equipment maintenance and its evolution (establish CAPEX according to strategic plan).

You may also be involved in cross-functional activities and scientific projects.

Qualifications:

• PhD and solid experience (5-10 years) in analytical chemistry on complex matrices (natural products, fermentation products) and biochemistry (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, fermentation metabolites).
• Extensive knowledge in chromatography (liquid, gas, ionic) is mandatory as well as in mass spectrometry.
• Experience in NMR and other spectroscopy will be a plus.
• Experience in team leadership, including motivation and federation of staff, performance management, employee development, delegation, and prioritization.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment, in collaborative and agile mode.

What can Lesaffre offer you:

• We are a successful family-owned company with a long-standing history where people truly matter.
• We promote a sense of fulfillment with a genuine mission: nourish and protect the planet.
• An opportunity to work in a real international environment.

All our jobs are open to people with disabilities.