Lead Application Specialist Brewing

Join us as a Lead Application Specialist Brewing! Drive innovative, customer-focused projects, manage lab operations, and champion our unique ingredient solutions. You will lead the application laboratory for on-time-in-full application & innovation projects for our customers. You will be working in close collaboration with the R&D department. Your expertise and passion can elevate our beverage industry offerings.

Boost your brewing!

Your key responsibilities

• Own and lead the Brewing Application Laboratory, ensuring effective day-to-day operations.
• Perform standard beer analyses in response to service requests for ongoing business, ensuring high data quality, robustness, and full traceability.
• Perform lab-scale brewing trials to support application and innovation projects, with a focus on enzyme performance throughout the brewing process.
• Manage chemical and enzyme inventories, including stock control, storage compliance, and replenishment planning; manage ordering and inventory of laboratory equipment; ensure proper maintenance, calibration, and timely repair of existing instruments.
• Expand and strengthen laboratory capabilities by maintaining/optimizing existing analytical methods, developing new methods when necessary.
• Be the safety SPOC for the Brewing Application Laboratory in Delft, ensuring compliance with all relevant safety standards.

We offer

• Being part of the exciting world of brewing and beverages.
• A world class company environment.
• A working place with connections to key industry experts and other disciplines that will make you grow.
• Working with key player customers in the brewing industry.
• A role to show leadership, drive results and put your personal signature.
• Being part of a team with ambition.

You bring

• You have a relevant HBO education & bring expertise in brewing & enzyme application.
• Expertise in physicochemical analytics key to brewing.
• Excellent project management & organisational skills.
• A 'Can Do' mentality with persistance, flexibility and creativity.
• Ownership mindset which focusses on doing the right things in the right way.
• Collaborative mindset with team, stakeholders and customers.

About dsm-firmenich

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