Allround Laboratory Technician

• A salary appropriate to your experience and good secondary employment conditions, depending on your knowledge and experience, and based on a full-time work week (from scale 4, dairy CAO);

• Interesting secondary employment conditions, such as €0.23 per km in travel allowance (max 80 km per day), 5% year-end bonus, 8% holiday allowance, and 200 vacation hours for a full-time employment;

At Royal Lactalis Leerdammer we make cheese: Leerdammer and more!

We do this with more than 440 colleagues, spread across three locations in the Netherlands. Behind Royal Lactalis Leerdammer stands the largest dairy company in the world: Lactalis, with more than 90,000 employees and nearly 300 production locations in 52 countries.

At Royal Lactalis Leerdammer, we love being good at something, but we find it even more fun to look at how it can become increasingly efficient, safer, higher quality, or more sustainable. For our customers and consumers, but also for ourselves. If you work at Royal Lactalis Leerdammer, you are also certain that you can and may develop yourself. You do this by showing what you can do and by making your wishes known.

As an Allround Laboratory Technician, you are responsible for performing various chemical, physical, and microbiological analyses. Central to your role is performing analyses on raw materials, intermediate products, and finished products. Additionally, you monitor the hygiene of the production environment by taking samples and you monitor the quality parameters of our wastewater treatment.

Based on the analysis results, you draw conclusions, process the data, and report the findings. In doing so, you work according to the protocols that apply within Royal Lactalis Leerdammer. You coordinate the results with internal customers and you regularly visit various departments, such as milk reception, cheese production, and the cutting and packaging department, to take samples or to perform a calibration.

As a laboratory employee, you contribute directly to the integration process of the Royal Lactalis standards within the Leerdammer lab organization, where the goal is to work closely to the ISO 17025 guideline. You work closely with fellow technicians, the Senior Technician, and the Laboratory Expert. You report to the Laboratory Manager.

• A working environment with a diversity of colleagues;

• A down-to-earth informal production environment in the Netherlands that is part of the largest dairy company in the world;

• An environment where a strong and world-famous A-brand is produced;

• Many opportunities for training and professional education, via for example our Learning Factory or external trainers.