Description

Substrate Engineer – 7175 URA

Our client  is a leading international consumer goods company driven by innovation, science, and technological advancement. The company is transforming its business through the development of innovative products and expanding into wellness and healthcare. Our client fosters a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative working environment, bringing together professionals from different backgrounds and disciplines. With a strong commitment to scientific excellence, sustainability, and continuous innovation.

This role focuses on the scientific development, formulation, characterization, and optimization of innovative substrate materials for next-generation products. The position involves designing and executing laboratory experiments, developing new material formulations, evaluating physical and chemical properties, and translating scientific findings into product performance improvements. It also encompasses prototype development, process optimization, and scale-up from laboratory to industrial manufacturing, ensuring product quality, safety, compliance, and consistency. Working at the intersection of materials science, formulation engineering, and product development, the role contributes to technological innovation, improved product performance, and the continuous advancement of substrate technologies. This is a 12 months contract role.

   Main Responsibilities:

·      Hands-on new substrate formulations from laboratory to industrial scale.

·      Make the link between raw material properties and product deliveries.

·      Define/implement development plans to drive speed, quality, cost-effectiveness, competitiveness and compliance of substrates across platforms and products.

·      Support the scientific product/process understanding, to establish requirements based on risk assessment, performance, safety, quality criteria and timely release.

·      Carry out activities ensuring that compliance policies, standards and laws related are respected.

  Qualifications and Experience:

·      Relevant working/residency permit or Swiss/EU-Citizenship required.

·      Master's Degree in Biochemistry, Food Technology, Agri Food Process Engineering

·      Demonstrated experience and participating into end-to-end new product design/development engineering.

·      Creativity, Critical Thinking, Material Science & Engineering, Prototyping & Experimentation

·      Innovation, System Architecture & Integration, Testing & Validation, Product Design & Development, Quality Assurance & Control.