Chemical Downstream Process Development Lead

at  Corbion

AT CORBION, WE EXIST TO CHAMPION PRESERVATION IN ALL ITS FORMS, PRESERVING FOOD AND FOOD PRODUCTION, HEALTH, AND OUR PLANET.

As a Chemical Downstream Process Development Lead you will be improving and developing innovative new downstream (bio)chemical processes as part of the Process Technology department of Corbion’s Innovation Center, at our location in Gorinchem. This is the largest R&D site of Corbion with labs, offices, and a pilot plant, supporting manufacturing facilities worldwide.
Corbion Innovation Center’s Process Technology department is a team of around 20 scientists and technicians. We create value by providing innovative solutions for process design, development and optimization activities and taking responsibility for scale-up and process demonstration, from bench-top to industrial scale, including technology transfer and implementation support.

As a Senior Process Development Scientist, you collaborate and lead technical activities to develop, scale-up and transfer processes and know-how between R&D and Operations. You combine a solid scientific background with a hands-on approach and drive to deliver. You are familiar with working in innovative, multi-disciplinary project teams, forming and maintaining connections to business and operations as well as colleagues from other Innovation Center groups (Industrial Fermentation, Product Development, Microbiology, etc.

• Leading and supporting process development, scale-up, implementation and optimization of new or existing processes and products at Corbion’s locations or at third parties.
• Troubleshooting of production by adequately translating the technology challenges to lab, pilot scale and production scale trials.
• Preparing, leading, and executing pilot and demo-scale production runs.
• Analyzing results and providing data based recommendations to stakeholders.
• Ensuring documentation and reporting of procedures and results according to Corbion standards.
• Supporting intellectual property, regulatory affairs, marketing, and sales departments with relevant expertise, including signaling IP opportunities.
• Building insight, know-how and skills on different downstream processing technologies for both food and non-food products.
• Assisting in development and mentoring of junior specialists, technicians

THE ROLE

As a Senior Process Development Scientist, you collaborate and lead technical activities to develop, scale-up and transfer processes and know-how between R&D and Operations. You combine a solid scientific background with a hands-on approach and drive to deliver. You are familiar with working in innovative, multi-disciplinary project teams, forming and maintaining connections to business and operations as well as colleagues from other Innovation Center groups (Industrial Fermentation, Product Development, Microbiology, etc.

• Leading and supporting process development, scale-up, implementation and optimization of new or existing processes and products at Corbion’s locations or at third parties.
• Troubleshooting of production by adequately translating the technology challenges to lab, pilot scale and production scale trials.
• Preparing, leading, and executing pilot and demo-scale production runs.
• Analyzing results and providing data based recommendations to stakeholders.
• Ensuring documentation and reporting of procedures and results according to Corbion standards.
• Supporting intellectual property, regulatory affairs, marketing, and sales departments with relevant expertise, including signaling IP opportunities.
• Building insight, know-how and skills on different downstream processing technologies for both food and non-food products.
• Assisting in development and mentoring of junior specialists, technicians.