Lab Control

**Job Description**:
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.**

**How you will contribute**

You will perform a range of analyses, prepare and maintain standard equipment and chemicals required for running of an analytical laboratory, support laboratory activities while ensuring compliance to the appropriate internal and external standards, and capture and report data with technical rigor and accuracy. To succeed in this role, you will maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment and be proficient in generic and specific software packages.

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

- Working on teams and independently with the guidance of more senior team members
- Proactively identifying problems and assisting in creating and implementing solutions
- Maintaining equipment to ensure they are always operable
- Recording and reporting data and activity outcome accurately
- Working in laboratories
- Relevant industry and/or academic experience

**More about this role**

**Main responsibilities**:

- Carrying out quality checks and analyzes on the semi-finished cocoa mass in the chocolate factory.
- Carrying out quality checks on the end products in the chocolate factory.
- Carrying out quality checks and analyzes on raw materials, semi-finished products or end products in the chocolate factory on specific request: performing viscosity measurements,
- Organizing taste tests in the chocolate factory on specific request.
- Provide support and follow up on shelf life extensions for raw materials and semi-finished products in the chocolate factory respectively.
- Collecting samples for periodic updating of the calibration lines in the various NIR devices in the chocolate factory.
- Carrying out calibrations of a number of recorded measuring instruments within the chocolate factory

**Job specific requirements**:

- You have a bachelor's degree in laboratory technician or a bachelor's degree in nutrition or equivalent through experience.
- You work accurately and safely.
- You are a real team player.
- You are medically fit: recognizing color and taste deviations during taste tests (organoleptic properties)
- You can work independently and take initiative.
- You are administratively strong. You have a thorough knowledge of Word, Excel. Knowledge of SAP is a plus.
- You are communicative and can express yourself fluently (orally and in writing) in Dutch and English.
- Experience or knowledge of the sector is a plus.

**Work schedule**:

- You are flexible and willing to start earlier (7 AM) in a rotation system within the lab team.
- You are flexible and willing to work sporadically during the weekend

The responsibilities of this position are performed within the framework of a regional business model that is defined and managed by Mondelēz Europe GmbH, Switzerland.

**No Relocation support available**:
**Business Unit Summary**:
**At Mondelez Europe, we are proud, not only of the iconic brands we make, but also of the people who make them. Our delicious products are created in 52 plants across Europe by more than 28,000 passionate people. We are the top maker of chocolate and biscuits and a leading maker of gum and candy. We make sure our powerful global brands and local jewels like **_Cadbury _**, **_Milka _**and **_Alpen Gold _**chocolates, **_Oreo _**, **_belVita _**, **_LU _**and **_Tuc _**biscuits, and **_Stimorol _**and **_Dirol _**gums get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Join us on our journey to continue leading the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way.**:
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

**Job Type**:
Regular

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