Researcher Job in Food Processing Technology at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands.

Do you want to participate in the development of new technologies that contribute to making our food production more sustainable? Do you have a passion for process technology and do you want to use this knowledge to make better and healthier food products? Do you want to be part of a dynamic project organization in which working for customers is central? Are you communicative and do you have a practical attitude? Then we are looking for you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, enterprising and substantive Food Processing Technology researcher who contributes to the expansion of our research portfolio in the field of sustainable, healthy and safe food and the process technologies required for this.

What are you going to do?

As a Food Processing Technology researcher you will be involved in, among other things:

• Setting up and conducting experiments together with colleagues within multidisciplinary applied scientific research projects in the field of food process technology;
• Developing and summarizing research results together with colleagues into (partial) reports, publications and presentations for our clients;
• Conducting literature research to support the project work;
• Carrying out (simple) modeling activities in the field of process engineering.

Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, part of Wageningen UR, offers you a challenging and market-oriented environment where motivated scientific professionals conduct research for companies, government and knowledge institutions. The Food Technology group develops innovative knowledge and technologies with which healthy, safe and sustainable products can be made using fewer raw materials and energy. Examples of this are techniques for mild preservation (eg Pulsed Electric Fields, High Pressure Processing), advanced texturing (eg Shear Cell technology, 3D printing) or mild heating (eg microwave, radio-frequency, infrared), always aimed at optimal product quality. , maintaining microbiological safety and making the production process more sustainable.

We ask

• you are an ambitious and customer-oriented researcher with good communication and technical skills, team spirit and problem-solving ability;
• you have a completed academic education (Master or PhD) in a relevant field, eg food process technology or chemical engineering;
• you have knowledge of sustainable and safe food processing, preferably specific knowledge about a certain technology (eg mild preservation, drying) and the relationship with product properties, microbiology and shelf life;
• you have a good verbal and written command of the Dutch and English language.

We offer

When it comes to terms of employment , Wageningen University & Research is the right place for you. Highlights from our collective labor agreement are, for example:

• working hours that can be determined in consultation, so that an optimal balance between work and private life is possible;
• the possibility to build up extra compensation hours by working more, a maximum of 40 hours per week;
• sabbatical leave, study leave and partly paid parental leave;
• there is a lot of attention for vitality and you can use the sports facilities on campus at an attractive rate;
• a structural year-end bonus of 4%;
• excellent pension scheme through ABP

These excellent fringe benefits also come with an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive salary of at least € 2836,-. up to a maximum of €4624. for a full working week of 36 hours in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement Wageningen Research (scale 10).

Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for own initiative in a learning environment, we offer excellent training opportunities. You will get a versatile job with us in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You will be working on the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands, and at a university that is open before the 17th ^centuryhas been chosen consecutively as the ” best university ” in the Netherlands.

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