Mission and key tasks

Puratos is a growing, international, Belgian family business with a team of more than 11 000 employees worldwide. Since 1919, we have been developing, producing and distributing innovative ingredients for the bakery, patisserie and chocolate sectors and helping our customers to be successful. We are committed to the health and well-being of people and protecting the planet.
We at Puratos cultivate an inclusive global workplace, that fully embraces diversity and equal opportunities for all. We strive to reflect the richness of our customers, communities and society, accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver on our commitments.

• You will be engaged in a multi discipline internship that englobes laboratory investigation on potential production upgrades, investigation of new raw materials in the laboratory within bakery and validation of new analytical methods.
• Support on process improvement investigation for emulsifier production lab scale. Determination of potential optimizations in terms of productivity.
• Investigation of the powder characteristics during industrial manufacturing and potential hazards for operators.
• Investigation on new enzymatic technologies by using new analytical methods and bakery lab validation of results.
• Implementation in the formulation templat,  raw material risk assessment. Ensure that all the potential hurdles of new formulas developed are well described and develop a tool for automatic reporting.
• Integrate the updated nutritional values in the formulation template. Develop a tool for automatic reporting.

Profile

• You are finishing a master study in Food Science, Food Technology or other related studies within science
• Experience in the laboratory
• Advanced knowledge in Excel
• Experience with nutrition
• Fluent in English, any other language is an asset

Practical info’s

• • Period of the internship : 3 months
  • (minimum) Duration of the internship : 3 months
  • Location of the internship: GB