EO Development Chemist

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  
 

As an Engineer R&D Essential Oils in Caronno Pertusella (Milan) you will conduct flavor application and provide technical expertise to lead and establish successful cooperation with customers, according to our goals and EH&S policies.  

Reporting to the Site Operations Head, you will:

•  Be an expert of Essential oils to perform formulation and manage the adjustments due to raw material variation or shortages, working with teams to ensure orders are delivered on time for customers. 

•  Assist QC with rectifications and rework instructions on batches that are out of specifications.

•  Advice suitability of raw materials for GFI blends to QC when needed.

•  Complete daily brief-related tasks and apply knowledge during the flavor selection, evaluation and application development

•  Lead evaluations of flavors in food applications for briefs, research projects and portfolio evaluations

•  Select flavors for projects according to specified requirements (i.e. customer, regulatory, legislation, cost) and suggest improvements for the most common applications

•  Identify appropriate flavor delivery systems and technologies for customer projects in specific applications

Knowledge sharing and expertise:

•    Be a technical expert and advisor to marketing, sales, flavor creation, and customers for specific applications

•    Coach, train, and motivate technicians and technologists

•    Maintain relationships with a limited number of customers; able to gain their trust and respect

Data maintenance:

•    Maintain the data for the Ingredient portfolio GFI through evaluation in finished product and capture of profiles

Environmental Health & Safety:

•    Maintain a safe, clean and organized lab environment observing EH&S policies and hold others accountable for following these guidelines

Academic Background:

 B.S. or Master's Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology or Ph.D. in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology

Professional Experience:

•    With B.S.: minimum 7 - 9 years of experience in a food/flavor applications lab, production, or related area 

•    With Master's Degree: minimum 4 - 6 years of experience in a food/flavor applications lab, production, or related area

•    With Ph.D.: minimum 2 - 3 years of experience in a food/flavor applications lab, production, or related area

Our Benefits for you:

Life Insurance

Travel Insurance

Meal allowance

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.