Food Technologist (m/f/d)

Location

Einbeck | Germany

Job description

KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.5 billion in the fiscal year 2021/2022. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €285 million last fiscal year in research and development.t's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in the purpose of what they are doing! We are looking to recruit a Food Technologist (m/f/d) as of July 2024 to take a pioneering role in establishing a new plant-based food ingredients competence within KWS. The position will be filled on a full-time and permanent basis at our headquarters in Germany/Einbeck (KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA).Stelle Stellenangebot Job Jobangebot Ernährungswissenschaft Ökotrophologie Lebensmitteltechnologie Lebensmittelmanagement Einbeck Hildesheim Göttingen Ernährungswissenschaften Lebensmittelwissenschaften Lebensmittelindustrie Ingenieur Lebensmitteltechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologe Engineer food technology Fachkraft Lebensmitteltechnik food science food ingredient development food ingredient formulation food ingredient function project management projekt management Saatgut für Mais, Zuckerrüben, Getreide, Gemüse, Raps und Sonnenblumen. KWS Pflanzenzüchtung

• You will be working with our state-of-the-art genetics, chemistry, and plant breeding teams.
• You will be working on many parallel commercially focused product development projects.
• You will be in touch with diverse food applications of plant proteins.
• This is an excellent opportunity to be an influential member of a new initiative in the dynamic and fast-moving plant-based food ingredients trend.
• MSc or PhD in food technology, food science, biology, or adjacent sciences.
• Ideally you bring first experiences in food ingredient development, formulation, and function.
• You have excellent scientific communication skills and are able to "think outside the box".
• You have methodological skills in the areas of project management as well as in establishment of new lab protocols and their documentation.
• You are a great team player with positive energy.
• Good German and English language skills required.
• As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence; this culture is lived in practice, creating thus an open and friendly working atmosphere.
• True to our motto Make yourself grow, we support employees’ professional and personal development.
• We offer excellent work equipment (e.g. the newest laboratory equipment), a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location.
• We offer a company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and a job bike.
• Health & Safety are very important for us: our company doctor, company fire brigade / paramedics (with time credit) and company sports create a solid base for this.

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