R&D Assistant – Food Industry at Puratos

Job Description

Puratos is an international group, which offers a full range of innovative products and application expertise for artisans, industry, retailers and food service customers in the bakery, patisserie and chocolate sectors.Our headquarters are just outside Brussels (Belgium), where the company was founded in . Almost a century later, our products and serv…

R&D Assistant – Food Industry

What you will do :

Support Innovation Center / R&D organization

• You plan, design, and execute trials, including preparing raw materials and operating and cleaning the line.
• You plan, design, and execute lab trials in collaboration with the R&D team & Director, application, shelf-life, benchmark, and sensory tests.
• You create and organize trial reports, including conclusions and recommendations.
• You continuously improve and update test procedures in collaboration with the R&D Director.
• You manage the stock of supplies, raw materials, and finished goods.
• You maintain lab and equipment in collaboration with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• You support administrative tasks, including maintaining and updating recipes in Odoo, managing the administrative handover process to the factory, and organizing R&D events such as Innovation Days, trainings and customer visits.
• Participate in actualizing events / trainings / Demos in conjunction with commercial and R&D teams.
• Participate in strategic exercises to develop new / existing customers, in close collaboration with the R &D and commercial team.

What we expect from you