R&D fermentation junior engineer

Publication date
05-Nov-2025
Job location
Anderlecht
Galactic

Your mission will be specifically dedicated to two flagship projects: Development of molecules of interest with high potential. Innovation for safe and natural food applications. As part of your role, you will also be required to: Innovate and develop: Design, optimize, and test fermentation...

Job fuction

Your mission will be specifically dedicated to two flagship projects:

  • Development of molecules of interest with high potential.
  • Innovation for safe and natural food applications.

As part of your role, you will also be required to:

Innovate and develop: Design, optimize, and test fermentation processes on different strains, with the aim of transforming your laboratory ideas into effective industrial solutions.

Manage trials: Plan, carry out, and analyze your experiments, monitor key parameters, and make recommendations to improve yield, quality, and reproducibility.

Communicate and share: Write clear reports, present your results to internal teams and customers, and contribute to the preparation and monitoring of subsidized projects.

Monitoring and compliance: Keep up with trends in fermentation and bioprocesses, integrate relevant innovations, and ensure process safety and compliance.

Contribute to lab life: Keep the lab organized and safe, participate in continuous improvement, and foster a collaborative and pleasant work environment.

Job profile

  • You have a degree in biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology, biological engineering, or equivalent.
  • Significant experience in fermentation, ideally in R&D, is highly desirable.

Key skills:

  • Proficiency in fermentation processes and experimental data analysis.
  • Ability to solve technical problems, optimize processes, and collaborate with production.
  • Excellent communication and ability to present clear results to internal teams and customers.

Personal qualities: Scientific curiosity, analytical mind, autonomy, and a taste for collaborative work.

Additional asset: Experience with innovative food, cosmetic, or biotechnology projects.

Languages

French/English

Job offer

A clearly defined contract dedicated to innovative and strategic projects.

A stimulating position that gives you the opportunity to play an active role in the development of an innovative company. A company on a human scale with an international dimension, encouraging autonomy and team spirit.

An attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits (meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospital insurance for you and your family: doctor's appointments, dental and optical expenses, prescription drugs, paramedical consultations and care, group insurance (life/death/disability pension).

A multidisciplinary, formative, and stimulating experience thanks to the challenges to be met and the variety of the work.