(Senior) Lab Technician

Job description

Join our Dairy Application Team in Delft, The Netherlands, meeting the demands for delicious dairy and plant‑based products. As a (Senior) Lab Technician and UHT expert, you run trials, create prototypes, and assess physical properties, shaping customer solutions. Contribute meaningfully in a creative lab environment where curiosity, expertise, and collaboration deliver healthier, tastier products for people and planet.

Your key responsibilities

• Prepare your trials including e.g. setting up the test equipment and arranging the necessary raw materials.
• Accurately plan and independently execute trials in the laboratory to develop applications, test (new) ingredients or demonstrate product benefits to customers.
• Collect data of multiple types of analyses (e.g. chemical, rheological) with respect to ingredients and final products.
• Report your results, for further development and participate in drawing conclusions and recommendations.
• Perform activities in line with the food safety and QESSH standards/regulations and share your ideas to further improvement of way of working.
• Demonstrate equipment and lab ownership, especially equipment owner and principle user for compact, complete UHT pilot installation.

We offer

• The opportunity to work on new products that will become available in the supermarkets, also because of your contribution!
• A company culture that is informal and open and offers room for initiative.
• A work context in which you can develop yourself.
• A variety of activities in a reputable and successful company, where safety is a priority.
• Primary and secondary labor conditions that match the position.

You bring

• MBO/HBO in Food Technology or related field, with early experience and growth ambition in a lab context.
• Practical UHT operation experience (3-5 years) and hands-on background in dairy processing and product development/research.
• Motivated to work in an innovation‑driven, dynamic business environment, taking ownership of project activities.
• Flexible, curious, and effective in managing multiple experiments and work streams with strong organizational skills.
• Strong team collaborator who shares ideas, contributes to progress, and brings accuracy and rigor in experiment implementation.
• English proficiency required; Dutch is an advantage.

About dsm-firmenich

Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

Work that supports nutrition, health, and beauty, with opportunities to keep learning, collaborate across teams and borders, and contribute ideas that help shape what comes next.