Are you an experienced interdisciplinary food scientist with an interest in product formulation, analysis and dialogue with both customers and potential users? Can you balance creativity and structure in your work? We are looking for someone with solid experience and education in food and beverage science, technology and innovation, who wants to develop further. With us, learning and development are part of everyday life, where we make decisions based on technical, financial and design grounds.

Your responsibilities
With management from our headquarters and laboratories in Lund, we need a person whose task is to support our clients in the development and fortification of new and existing F&B products with our suite of upcycled extracts (prebiotics, proteins, mono-sugars, polyphenols and other nutrients).

Your duties will include:

• The development of product formulations for customers and processes in laboratories and verification of the potential for scale-up.
• In collaboration with our partners and customers, design, analyse and deploy new functional food and beverage products.
• Application of quality and safety routines in accordance with authority requirements.
• Writing SOPs for products, processes, laboratory and the pilot plant.
• Execution of established laboratory based analytical techniques for the nutritional profile of potential substrates.
• Work under GLP conditions and with HACCP and GMP.

About you
We are looking for someone who has solid experience, education and interest in food and beverage development and innovation - and wants to develop even more. A good day is a day when you learn something new - or even bring new knowledge to the world. Development is part of our everyday work and to do it as well as possible we need to be sensitive to everything from technical subtleties to how the end product's properties are experienced by ordinary people. And all the way in between we need to make decisions based on financial, technical, design, organoleptic and a lot of other grounds. The specification of what we do will be both in the form of documents with strict requirements and numbers and in the form of information that we work out during the process and receive step by step through our customer projects.

Essential skills include:

• Worked 5+ years in a similar position.

Desirable skills include:

• Fluent in English and Swedish in speech and writing.
• Experience of customer-oriented projects.
• Experience of:
  • Food and beverage formulation, development and innovation.
  • Nutritional analyses of F&B products.
  • Nutritional pathways in humans.
  • Analysis of F&B aroma, taste, consistence, visuals etc.
  • Research in F&B.
  • Lab work in F&B.
  • HPLC, Ion Chromatography.
  • Microbiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of product development.
  • Familiarity with food laboratory based analytical techniques.

Why should you apply?

• Be part of a small growing company where key positions will enable high impact and growth opportunities.
• An opportunity to change the world and have a real impact by improving people's lives.
• We value both professional and non-profit experience - so with the right background and attitude, this could be an opportunity for you to connect several different things into a new whole.
• Possibility for shares through options agreements.
• Possibility of further education and courses.
• Competitive salary.
• 10% pension savings.
• Health care allowance of SEK 5,000 per year.

The company
Carbiotix is an award-winning biotechnology company pioneering the onsite upcycling of plant-based side-streams.

Carbiotix mission is to improve the health of people by increasing the consumption of prebiotics and other active ingredients from upcycled side-streams. Carbiotix offers one core service today called NutraCycle, an onsite upcycling and fortification service allowing food & beverage, ingredient, and feed producers to turn plant-based products into healthier, more profitable, and sustainable products.

Are you interested or want to know more?
Contact Erik Deaner, erik.deaner@carbiotix.com

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Employment at: Carbiotix AB (publ) AB in Lund

Scope: Full-time

Start: By agreement