Food Safety and Hygiene Advisor Wageningen • MY Recruitment

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In this role, you lead and support trials that generate valuable insights into the application of Phageguard solutions for controlling pathogens and improving hygiene. 
By combining your industrial knowledge of food safety standards, hygienic practices, and sanitation processes, you provide practical advice at customer sites. You guide operators and quality teams on the optimal use of the different products, whether on food contact surfaces, in processing environments, or within broader hygiene programs.
Beyond day-to-day applications, you also identify new opportunities where the technology can add value to customers’ food safety strategies. Working closely with sales and application colleagues, you help define the best points of intervention and most effective methods of application.

The following tasks will be a part of your responsibilities

• Visiting customer production sites and analysing processing lines and hygiene practices, determining how the products of Phageguard work effectively in these environments
• Translating factory parameters, hygienic design, and food safety requirements into application testing protocols and advise on pathogen control
• Independently planning, executing, and analysing application experiments to demonstrate safety and efficacy in order to optimize the performance of products
• Supporting customers and the sales department with technical insights, regulatory and literature-based data
• Converting laboratory and trial data into practical sales tools, such as application data sheets, protocols, or customer presentations
• Identifying, in close alignment with the sales department, customer needs and food safety intervention opportunities, and translating these into commercially feasible concepts

The Food Safety and Hygiene Advisor will report to the Director Research and Innovation and will be working in close collaboration with the Phageguard Business Development team (and distributors).
 

You thrive on providing excellent service and are customer-oriented, always ensuring that your guidance and solutions add real value to those you work with. You approach your work systematically, paying close attention to accuracy. You always want to deliver high-quality results that are well-documented and reliable. 
At the same time, you are enthusiastic and proactive, a self-starter who drives initiatives forward, while also being a collaborative team player with an outgoing, can-do attitude that inspires those around you.

Qualifications

• You have a BSc or MSc level education in Food Technology, Food Microbiology, Food Quality management or Food Safety (or compensated by experience).
• You bring relevant working experience in food technology, food safety, food quality, food sanitation, food ingredients, or a related field, broadly experienced in industry
• You are fluent in English and preferably also in Dutch
• You have excellent reporting skills both oral and in writing in English
• Driver’s license
• Based in the Netherlands