Job area: Industrial
Activity: Food flavouring and taste
Location: Cedar Rapids, United States
Contract type: VIE
Experience: Graduate

Contribute to an exciting mission
What will your daily life look like?

Following the growth of the past few years, we want to prioritize the efficiency subjects. We want to work especially on consumption reduction.

What you will do :

Optimize the usage of water, condensate, sewer, electric, steam for the Cedar Rapids plant. Establish goals for lowering energy to improve sustainability and lower costs.
Maintain records on sustainability metrics. Collect data to track factory performance baseline and improvements.
Investigate alternative production processes to minimize energy output.
Work to lower carbon dioxide output in the plant to minimize the environmental impact.
Study how we manage water at every stage of our operation. Automation, analytics, and remote monitoring are critical components of a meaningful water sustainability program
Communicate CSR initiatives within the Cedar Rapids plant and ensure local implementation is consistent with expectations of the global program
Other projects assigned

Make a personal impact
That makes you the ideal candidate

About You

Master or engineering degree, major in food-industrial is a plus
A minimum of two years working experience would be a plus.

And Your Skills

Solid knowledge of unit operations of industrial processes as well as at least 1 years of industrial field experience (postgraduate experience);
A fluent English is mandatory. French would be a plus.
Your skills and technical sensitivity allow you to be a real field engineer.
You know how to work in a multicultural context within the framework of projects requiring autonomy, initiative, sense of responsibility and team spirit;
Good communications skills.

Let’s take on tomorrow’s challenges together

As a global key player in yeasts and fermentation, Lesaffre designs, manufactures and markets innovative solutions for Baking, Food taste & pleasure, Health care and Biotechnology.
Family group born in northern France in 1853, now a multi-national and a multicultural company, Lesaffre is committed to working with confidence to better nourish and protect the planet.
In close collaboration with its clients and partners, Lesaffre employs 11 000 people in nearly 80 subsidiaries based in +50 countries.
Lesaffre achieves a turnover of 2.2 billion euros.

Biospringer, as a Business Unit of Lesaffre, is a key player and global producer of natural origin yeast ingredients for the food industry.
Its comprehensive products range includes yeast extracts, dried food yeasts, yeast-based flavors and more.

Biospringer offers solutions to improve the flavor profile of recipes and participate in the development of healthier everyday consumers’ products. With 8 productions plants, a network of commercial teams and Culinary centers around the world and a team of technologists and R&D, Biospringer brings taste and pleasure to consumers.