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Application Technologist
Who are we? Customer-focused experts. Entrepreneurial thinkers. Creative collaborators. Headquartered in the United States, Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Our Research and Development teams shape the future by developing and applying specialized systems, ingredients, and proprietary technologies that bring to life our customers’ food, personal care, and pharmaceutical products.
Who are you? A big thinker who knows how to get results. Every day in Research and Development will bring a new opportunity to put your curiosity and knowledge to use.
Join our Innovation team, and you will use your scientific and technological investigation skills to develop state-of-the-art ingredients and revolutionary formulations and technologies. You will be part of a global network of Sensient scientists who make original contributions to new product developments around the world.
Join our Applications Team, and you will partner with our customers in our labs and at their facilities to achieve their vision, solve their challenges, and bring innovative products to market. You will work face to face with customers large and small, from multinationals with the world’s best-known brands, to cutting-edge startups.
Whether in Innovation or Applications, you will grow personally and professionally while doing exciting international work as part of our winning culture.
success profile
We are looking for Applications and Innovation team members who are:
- Results-focused
- Collaborative
- Skilled communicators
- Analytically rigorous
- Detail-oriented
- Intensely curious
Your journey
career path
- Lab Technician
- Application Scientist (multiple levels)
- Technical Service Manager (multiple levels)
- Technical Director
- Senior Technical Director or
- Innovation Intern
- Innovation Associate (multiple levels)
- Innovation Scientist (multiple levels)
- Innovations Manager
cultural points
The Sensient Six are the core values that drive us in our mission.
- Entrepreneurial
- Customer focused
- Develop self and others
- Collaborative
- Results driven
- Know your job
Application Technologist
At Sensient, we are hiring an Application Technologist for our Essential Oils Team. We offer this full-time, office-based role in Barcelona, Spain.
This is a great opportunity for a highly autonomous specialist, directly reporting to the R&D Manager. You will be working in our GC-MS equipped analytical and application lab with high qualitative, nature authentic profiles that are less volatile to quality and price than natural raw materials. This means we provide you with a solid and stable job in an exciting and growing environment.
Our portfolio includes end use products for Fragrance Houses, Flavour Houses, Aromatherapy, Personal Care, Oral Care and Home Care.
What you’ll do:
- Develop applications needed by the commercial team and collaborate with other labs in the Sensient Group to share knowledge and equipment
- Weigh formulations during prototyping stages and before dispatching samples to the customers
- Select the appropriate existing blend from the library to satisfy the clients’ needs
- Support in formula development, validation and efficiency testing
- Manage and prepare the analytical instrumentation and gas chromatograph set-up
- Collaborate with Product Managers for the creation and management of our libraries
- Maintenance of raw materials stock, packaging, labeling and cleaning of laboratory equipment
What you’ll bring:
- To help you be successful in this role, we ask you to bring a Certificate of Laboratory Technician + two years of work experience in a similar role
- As you will be responsible for our lab equipment and GC-MS, we need you to have working knowledge of dealing with lab equipment
- Good English skills are an advantage, because you will be working in an international environment
What you’ll get:
- Based in our office in Barcelona, you will be working in an international team environment
- An excellent salary and development opportunities
- A thorough and effective training experience during onboarding and beyond
About Sensient Essential Oils:
Sensient Essential Oils reinforces the strategy of keeping focused on natural ingredients, which are used in Flavors & Fragrance compositions, but other markets include aromatherapy, oral care, cosmetics, animal feed and pharmaceuticals.
About Sensient:
Sensient Technologies Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors, and extracts. Sensient employs advanced technologies at facilities around the world to develop specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, specialty colors, and other specialty and fine chemicals. The Company's customers include major international manufacturers representing most of the world's best-known brands.
Sensient is an Equal Opportunity Employer, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
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