R&D ASSISTANT - INNOVATION BREAD IMPROVERS

Job description

Entreprise:
The secrets behind Puratos’ global success and consistent growth are taste and quality. We would like to welcome you within our enthusiastic, committed and passionate team of more than 8800 employees. We are an international player and, what is more, a Belgian family business. Our people make the difference every single day. How? By developing, producing and distributing a unique and high-quality range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers, since 1919.
A century later, our products and services are available in more than 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, closeness to our customers, and their customers, as well as our core values form the basis of our passion to improve.
Working at Puratos is choosing a Top Employer in Belgium.
Shall we meet soon?
Poste et missions:
You will collaborate together with the Group Long Term Research Dpt. And Business Unit Bread Improvers during an exciting development project in the world of baked goods.
Your mission & key tasks:
- New formulation & prototype creation of lab / production samples to be applied in baked goods together with our Lab Team & Engineering Team (Process Upscaling).
- Suggest, organize and carry out baking trials to test the impact of these prototypes on bread making in collaboration with our Test Baking Team.
- Follow-up, together with the engineering / production team, on a pilot production process (process optimization) and test these samples in the final application.
- Assist the Product Management Team and prepare & organise internal & external evaluation sessions with international demonstrators and customers in different segments of the business.
- Report and present on regular intervals during team meetings & information sessions
Profil:
You are running a bachelor or master study in Food Science, Food Technology or related studies;
You are eager to learn more about R&D, formulation / processing and industrial upscaling in an applied research environment;
You are dynamic, hands-on and proactive;
You have good communication, presentation, planning and organization skills;
You’re sincerely interested in the bakery, patisserie or chocolate world;
You are fluent in French and English;
Having a first experience in a food industry is a plus;
You are looking for a 9 months duration (or even more) internship, based in Brussels, Belgium.