Chemical Analyst - Poppel, België - In Ovo Holding B.V.

Beschrijving

What will you get:

• A salary between €2,800 €4,000, depending on your working experience
• An annual budget of €1,500 for personal development
• 25 days holiday per year and the option to buy more
• Learning and personal growth opportunities
• A job at a cool company that's growing quickly

You:

• Completed an MLO/Associate degree such as Allround Laboratory Technician or Chemical Analyst
• Have a basic understanding of Dutch
• Have a driver's license and access to a motorized vehicle for transportation
• It's also fine if it's your first job

What you will do

We have created a technique to find out whether a hatching egg holds a male or a female, so we can prevent the male chicks from hatching.

This leads to a big animal welfare win, and a very interesting, but complex process.

Our machine Ella carefully takes samples from the hatching egg, making sure not to hit the bird-to-be inside. These tiny drops are analysed using a mass spectrometer to see whether the egg holds a male or female.

The cool part? This process is almost fully automated, but we need someone to oversee this process. So, your task as a
Chemical Analyst is to keep these analyses running smoothly.

You will work in a 2-shift system, alternating between early and late shifts:

• At our location in Ochten (NL) you will work from 6:00 am to 4:30 pm or from 4:00 pm to 2:00 am according to a schedule.
• At our location in Poppel (BE) you will work from 6.00 am to 2:30 pm or from 2:00 pm to 10.30 pm according to a schedule.

Your responsibilities include:

• Monitoring the lab process
• Replenishing pipette tips, solutions, well plates, etc.
• Troubleshooting firsthand problems
• Collaborating with the operations and R&D departments

What a typical day looks like

Our introduction (not boring, we're cool)
In 2011, the first In Ovo pipettes hit the lab


The goal was clear:
to stop the unnecessary killing of day old male chicks.

The first samples were carefully taken by hand.

It took some years to get there, but in 2016, it worked:

a single drop of the egg's fluid was enough to see whether it held a boy or a girl.

One done, only 13 billion to go.

As you can imagine, we needed a machine.

The first steps into industrialisation were taken and a huge impact on animal welfare was lurking. In 2020, our first machine was up and running. We named her Ella. What a beauty.

Taking a huge leap to today's

In Ovo:
we're a team of over 60 people, 3 Ellas and millions of saved chicks. We are engineers, operators, scientists, office people and everything in between. The go-getters of the poultry industry who roll up their sleeves to improve animal welfare. And Ella is just the beginning.

We believe that animals deserve a dignified place in a sustainable food industry.

And we need way more people to fulfil our mission of improving the lives of 5 billions animals by 2030.

• Are you with us?_

Interested but still in doubt?
If you find the position interesting but have a few doubts, that is completely understandable.

So, we welcome applicants even if they have some doubts. We'd be happy to have a chat.

• Acquisition for this vacancy is not appreciated._