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IFF Senior Application Technologist in Barueri, Brazil
Senior Application Technologist
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Date:Jul 5, 2024
Location: Barueri, BR
Company: IFF Family of Companies
Job Description
We are seeking aSenior Application Technologistfor the Grain Processing Business, where we leverage cutting-edge enzyme and yeast technology to develop sustainable solutions for the emerging bio-based economy. Our enzyme and yeast products are critical biocatalysts in our customers’ processes, enabling them to create renewable biofuel, feed, and food products. As a part of our Application Development team, this role will work across functions to develop and support products and processes.
Key responsibilities:
Support Sales and Technical Service efforts through analysis of customer samples via biochemical and analytical chemistry techniques, lab-scale simulations of customer processes, method development, and remote and onsite technical support;
Design, execute, analyze, interpret, report and present methodologies and experiments;
Key role in fermentation and saccharification sample chromatography analyses: HPLC, IC and GC;
Contribute to the technical development of enzyme and yeast products during the commercialization process, performance evaluation, marketing material generation, scale-up, and post-launch support;
Engage with Sales & Technical Service teams as well as with Latin American Grain Processing customers to understand regional aspects of their processes and needs;
Generate technical data and support for application development projects and customer support in fuel ethanol and carbohydrate processing;
Support precommercial trials of enzyme and yeast products at customer sites;
Job Requirements
Job Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Biology, Biotechnology or related areas;
Proven experience in chromatography (HPLC): method development and validation;
3-5 year experience performing biochemical and/or fermentation experiments at lab- and/or pilot-scales (e.g.: starch conversion, biomass conversion, ethanol or other fermentations, etc);
Fluent in written and spoken English; Spanish is desirable.
Availability for travelling 25-30% of the time;
Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
Self-starter with good organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail;
Proficiency in statistical analysis, including knowledge of statistical methods and tools such as JMP. Programming skills are highly desirable.
