R&D Specialist
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Apply to this jobCargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate.
Job Purpose and Impact
Location: Deventer (Netherlands) This is a site based role (Monday-Friday Days at the factory)
The R&D Expert Coatings & Fillings will manage research and development activities through effective trial coordination, execution, data analysis, and stakeholder alignment as part of Food Innovation Cocoa & Chocolate. In this role , you will contribute to the delivery of innovation projects by supporting researchers with industrial trials, scale-up activities, technical evaluations, and process optimization.
You will be accountable for supporting innovation and R&D activities, ensuring effective translation of products and processes from pilot to manufacturing, while maintaining strong collaboration with R&D, Operations, FSQR, Supply Chain and customer-facing teams.
Key Accountabilities
- Plan and perform quality assurance for trials and keep continuous and active dialogues with technical service, operations, FSQR and other key stakeholders
- Lead trial preparation, execution and follow-up activities to ensure timelines, deliverables and project objectives are achieved
- Lead continuous improvement together with trial teams using measurable performance indicators and drive scientific method development in cooperation with researchers
- Ensure all standard operating procedures are followed and updated and trials comply to the safety program and quality requirements. Pprovide guidance during trial execution when needed
- Responsible for the setup, monitoring, recording and reporting of trial results with appropriate partners
- Work with technical service, operations teams, to ensure accurate formulations, ingredient availability, process readiness and successful industrial execution
- Support and lead scale-up activities in the factory by evaluating the impact of ingredients and process conditions on product quality and manufacturing performance
- Organize and facilitate trial meetings and follow-up discussions to ensure actions, decisions and timelines are effectively managed
- Support small to medium innovation projects by coordinating plant activities and providing technical execution support
- Coordinate required sampling of raw materials and finished products to support projects and customer requests
- Support customer visits and plant tours when technical expertise is required
- Act as a liaison between R&D and operations to ensure successful production and commercialization readiness
- Approximately 10% travel is required to support manufacturing trials, customer visits, training activities, and collaboration with regional R&D teams
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in food Science, Food Technology, Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field or a related field or equivalent experience
- 0–3 years of relevant experience in product development, process development, manufacturing support, industrial trials, or scale-up activities
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a manufacturing and plant environment
- Fluent in Dutch and English
- Ability to work on-site in Deventer and build effective partnerships across functions
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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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Summary
Manage research activities, trials, and process optimization in food innovation projects.
Job title
R&D Specialist
Experience level
0-3 years
Minimum experience
0+ years exp
Industry
food and agriculture
Location requirements
Deventer, Netherlands; on-site role; minimal travel
Salary
Not specified
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
Deventer, Netherlands