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Job Purpose and Impact

 The Rapid Technology Application professional will contribute to work activities across all businesses in the region. In this role, you will coordinate and support the deployment of rapid technologies across designated locations within the assigned business and region. You will focus on near-infrared technology for both offline and inline applications and support the integration of new technologies into operational environments. You will also play a key role in identifying, piloting, and scaling future technologies within the pipeline, contributing to the development of a robust, technology-driven portfolio. Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders to ensure successful implementation, adoption, and ongoing support of rapid technology solutions at site level, driving consistency, performance, and value across the network. You will be responsible for the reliability of the implemented solutions through a maintain-and-sustain program. 

Key Accountabilities

• Execute and implement projects at selected locations, set up project plans, assess local analysis and sampling, define standard analysis and analyze programs for the related parameters.
• Support the implementation and installation of equipment, sampling, calibrations and testing and follow up of the project until the stable working situation is achieved.
• Maintain existing implementations and ensure governance.
• Support in troubleshooting and sharing feedback and actively support to improve the existing platform.
• Compile and report performance results of the deployed systems to various customers and partners in the business.
• Actively support the creation of guidelines, procedures and instructions, governance and develop training documents and coordinate and conduct trainings for employees and key users at the locations.
• Keep all best practices up to date, inform the locations of the needed changes and provide detailed descriptions of implementation flows at the plants.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Knowledge and experience in continuous improvement.
• Proven practical knowledge of manufacturing processes and operations.
• Statistical process management knowledge.
• Proficient in English, other European languages will be an asset.
• Proven project management skills with the ability to apply a structured and disciplined approach to planning, coordinating and completing projects successfully.
• Work experience in a laboratory environment in the food industry
• Experience in production or processing environment.
• Experience with GLP.
• Experience with IT-related issues for problem solving.
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Developed knowledge and exposure to calibration and implementation of NIR.
• Software knowledge to build NIR calibration lines or applied multivariate analysis techniques in other fields.
• Experience with LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), such as Unilab, Interspec, Report Manager.
• Confident and professional communication and presentation manner with an ability to get along with customers and partners on all levels within the organization.
• Minimum of one year of hands-on experience with Near-Infrared (NIR) technology