Technology Lead - Protein Process Development

In this position, your tasks and responsibilities include:

• Act as technology lead for strategic innovation projects for our proteins business; you ensure the translation of New Product Development ideas into feasible and scalable processes, from the first proof of concept up to a documented process design.
• Within projects, you identify, analyze, and communicate on the technological complexity and risks. You consider diverse perspectives but are not afraid to prioritize and take decisions, taking an optimal balance between speed and rigor.
• You prepare process designs and mass balances and contribute to business cases.
  
  You coordinate pilot plant trials and ensure smooth execution.
• Together with your colleagues, you develop strategies for protein processing and take responsibility for improving our way of working on protein process development, through introducing new methods, tools, and equipment.
• Identify intellectual property opportunities in early stages of and during projects and manage risk assessments.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to team members.
• Collaborate strongly internally and maintain external partnerships as needed. For this, you are willing and able to travel to mainly national production locations for approximately 15% of the time.