Job area
Research & Development
Category
Corporate
Location
Marcq-en-Barœul, France
Contract type
Internship - Stage

Job description

Within the Center of Excellence Down Stream Process Design belonging to the Lesaffre Institute of Science & Technology, and directly attached to the Drying Process Team Manager, you are in charge of developing process of preservation of micro-organisms and compounds of interest along with the drying process team (9 persons). You will be particularly in charge of the study of a new method of preservation of products by coating as well as their characterization (physico-chemical, microbiological study, stability)

As a Scientist, your responsibilities are:

    • To design and realize a plan of experiments for your project;
    • To evaluate and characterize products;
    • To define and design methods of production;
    • Produce prototypes and participate to their performance evaluation in application
    • To synthesize and write activities reports of your project

Qualifications

  • Master or engineering degree in process engineering, drying process, applied chemistry or food/chemical engineering
  • Fluent in English
  • Design of experiments
  • Knowledge on
    • Drying process (fluidized bed drying, spray drying, freeze drying, drum drying…)
    • Characterization of dry products, powders and emulsions
    • Formulation

Your personality:

You are :

  • Agile, collaborative, with a Team Player spirit.
  • Result oriented, rigorous, organized.
  • Technical and scientific curiosity
  • Good communication, reporting and writing skills.

What can Lesaffre offer you:

  • We are a successful family-owned company with long-standing history where people truly matter.
  • We promote a sense of fulfilment with a genuine mission: nourish and protect the planet.
  • You will experience intellectual challenges within a multi-expertise network.

Starting February/March 2025

Company description

A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a 3 billion
euros turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,000 employees and more
than 90 nationalities. On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with
customers, partners and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs
of food, health, naturalness and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we
explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.

To nourish 9 billion people, in a healthy way, in 2050 by making the most of our
planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation
is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.

Lesaffre – Working together to better nourish and protect the planet