Job Description:
Job Posting: Junior Microbiologist
Location: Veghel, Netherlands
Segment: Snacking
Full time
Work Schedule: Onsite, Day Shift: 7:30 – 16:00, 7 days /week operation
Join Mars Wrigley Confectionery as a Junior Microbiologist, where you will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day operations of our Regional Micro Laboratory. You will perform classical and molecular microbiological assays on a variety of sample types, ensuring compliance with Mars Global Laboratory Quality Standards and ISO 17025. This position is integral to maintaining the safety and quality of our products and environment.
What are we looking for ?Education and Experience
- Experience working in a production or laboratory environment.
- MBO niveau 3 or 4, affinity with Microbiology.
- Working knowledge of ISO 17025 standards.
- Experience with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).
- Affinity with IT and digital tools is required.
- English language- both written and spoken.
- Deliver Accurate Results: Perform microbiological analyses with precision and timeliness, ensuring true and reliable data.
- Aseptic Technique: Apply skilled expertise and diligence in aseptic techniques to prevent contamination.
- Technical Proficiency: Utilize microbiological culture methods and basic molecular techniques for sample analysis.
- Sample Handling: Prepare, homogenize, and perform serial dilutions on samples as required.
- Documentation: Maintain thorough and accurate records of microbiological results and testing traceability using the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
- Team Collaboration: Foster a collaborative environment through open, honest communication and respect for confidentiality of laboratory information.
- Quality Management: Adhere to documentation and record-keeping practices in alignment with the Regional Lab Quality Management System and relevant standards.
- Safety & Cleanliness: Contribute actively to a clean, safe, and compliant working environment, following all Mars safety and quality protocols.
- At Mars, we believe in a relationship of mutual trust, dignity and respect between our company and Associates that is more meaningful than the standard employer/employee relationship.
- As Associates, we can expect to be respected, supported and valued as individuals, to be treated fairly and equitably.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™.
We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
