Boost your brewing!

Join us as a Lead Application Specialist Brewing! Drive innovative, customer-focused projects, manage lab operations, and champion our unique ingredient solutions. You will lead the application laboratory for on-time-in-full application & innovation projects for our customers. You will be working in close collaboration with the R&D department. Your expertise and passion can elevate our beverage industry offerings. Apply today!

Your key responsibilities

• Own and lead the Brewing Application Laboratory, ensuring effective day-to-day operations.
• Perform standard beer analyses in response to service requests for ongoing business, ensuring high data quality, robustness, and full traceability.
• Perform lab-scale brewing trials to support application and innovation projects, with a focus on enzyme performance throughout the brewing process.
• Manage chemical and enzyme inventories, including stock control, storage compliance, and replenishment planning & manage ordering and inventory of laboratory equipment, ensure proper maintenance, calibration, and timely repair of existing instruments.
• Expand and strengthen laboratory capabilities by maintaining/optimizing existing analytical methods, developing new methods when necessary.
• Be the safety SPOC for the Brewing Application Laboratory in Delft, ensuring compliance with all relevant safety standards.

We offer

• Being part of the exciting world of brewing and beverages.
• A world class company environment.
• A working place with connections to key industry experts and other disciplines that will make you grow.
• Working with key player customers in the brewing industry.
• A role to show leadership, drive results and put your personal signature.
• Being part of a team with ambition.

You bring

• You have a relevant HBO education & bring expertise in brewing & enzyme application.
• Expertise inphysicochemical analytics key to brewing.
• Excellent project management & organisational skills.
• A 'Can Do' mentality with persistance, flexibility and creativity.
• Ownership mindset which focusses on doing the right things in the right way.
• Collaborative mindset with team, stakeholders and customers.

About dsm-firmenich
At dsm-firmenich, we don’t just meet expectations – we go beyond them. Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions – every single day. Whether it’s fragrance that helps you focus, alternative meat that’s better for the planet, or reducing sugar without losing flavor, this is where you help shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for everyone, everywhere.

And while you’re making a difference, we’ll make sure you’re growing too. With learning that never stops, a culture that lifts you up and the freedom to move across businesses, teams, and borders. Your voice matters here. And your ideas? They’re essential to our future.

Because real progress only happens when we go beyond, together.

Our application process

Interested in this position? Please apply online by uploading your resume in English via our career portal. Due to privacy regulations, we can only actively interact with applications via our career portal.

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement
At dsm-firmenich, we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that’s exactly the kind of culture we’re building. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we’re committed to reflecting the world we serve.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you, you.

And if you have a disability or need any support through the application process, we’re here to help – just let us know what you need, and we’ll do everything we can to make it work.

Agency Statement

We’re managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you’re applying as an individual, we’d love to hear from you. We’re not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.