Food Technician - Arhus

Are you passionate about turning ideas into concrete products via your hands-on technical skills? Then, now is your chance to show it. You will be part of a strong team, working daily with the development of new dairy products and technologies. It is our goal to be at the forefront of dairy product development and match the consumer needs worldwide. Even now, we are launching more and more products, and the ability to contribute with original ideas and products for the consumers is more crucial than ever. You will be based at state-of- the-art Arla Innovation Center in Aarhus and be part of a diverse and global community. 

How you will make an impact

As Food Technician you will be the prime responsible for running pilot scale trial-production of a wide range of dairy/’plant based’ products. Your work will always happen in close collaboration with product developers/food designers. To be more specific, you will:

• Perform pilot trials within a wide variety of product and technology areas
• Contribute to the preparation of the test proposal and help plan the trials
• Act as gatekeeper for projects in the pilot plant from A-Z
• Be responsible for the practical execution of the trials along with the rest of the team
• Showcase prototypes within Innovation community
• Report on observations and raw data
• Ensure good use of relevant process data
• Using available IT-systems
• Secure a safe, lean and efficient Plant

You will be part of an innovative and creative environment in which you will get the opportunity to handle many different development tasks and unit operations. The position entails a wide contact surface both internally in the department and at the operation sites.

What will make you successful

You are a trained Dairy Technician or Process Technologist, or you possess relevant work experience from the food industry. Furthermore, you have solid understanding of technical contexts and are used to handling equipment and processes. As your trials will determine, which products end up in the customers’ baskets, it is important that you act responsibly particular around food safety.

From time to time you will need to help roll-out recipes at production sites or collaborate with our global pilot plants and therefore it is important that you are flexible and open to work with many different people. You navigate smoothly in a project-oriented environment with many tasks and deadlines, and using your knowledge, commitment and creativity, you succeed in challenging your colleagues and contributing to the development of the department. You master both written and oral English.

Would you like to join us?

We process applications on a continuous basis and close the job opening once the right candidates has been found.

For additional information, please call Senior Food Technician/Supervisor, Steffen Øster Jensen + +4587466762  or Head of Global Pilot Plant, Sinne Bundgaard Nielsen at +45 89381338.

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it  Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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