Fermentation Scientist: Scale-Up & Process Innovation

The Protein Brewery; Breda; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Protein Brewery, a Dutch food technology company based in Breda, seeks a Fermentation Scientist to help scale up fermentation capacity. You will execute projects to improve yield, robustness and quality, conducting lab and pilot plant experiments and analyzing data to propose improvements for the full-scale process.

Join a small, hands-on team and contribute to implementing factory-scale changes while collaborating with operations and engineering.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in biotechnology or related field.
• R&D fermentation experience required.
• Experience implementing process improvements in a factory.
• Hands-on lab, pilot plant and office work experience.
• Fluent in Dutch and English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Execute research projects to improve fermentation yield, process robustness and output of our fermentation process.
• Set-up and conduct lab and pilot plant experiments to investigate and determine routes to improve productivity and quality.
• Deliver factory scale implementation of improvements in close collaboration with Operations team
• Manage experimental data and conduct data analysis on current and previous experiments to drive conclusions and create new hypotheses for new research.
• Work closely with other R&D team members, operations and engineering
• Provide design input into specifications and requirements for new fermentation equipment
• Ensure compliance with safety requirements.

Skills

R&D experience in fermentation

Hands-on mentality

Data analysis

Proactive attitude

Dutch & English fluency

Education

Master's degree in biotechnology, Life Science & Technology or Chemical Engineering

Tools

Lab & pilot plant experience

Job description

The Protein Brewery, a Dutch food technology company based in Breda, seeks a Fermentation Scientist to help scale up fermentation capacity. You will execute projects to improve yield, robustness and quality, conducting lab and pilot plant experiments and analyzing data to propose improvements for the full-scale process.

Join a small, hands-on team and contribute to implementing factory-scale changes while collaborating with operations and engineering.