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AAK International
Analytical & Sensory Specialist
Aarhus
August 7, 2024
Our story goes back more than 150 years, to the chilly southern coast of Scandinavia. From our early success in Sweden and Denmark, we’ve grown into the world’s leading specialist producer of plant-based oils, employing more than 4,000 people all across the globe.
We work with our customers to make the products you love even better. The oils we produce go into making your chocolate extra-creamy or putting the crunch into your croissant. And it’s not just food — we work across industries to make products that are higher quality, healthier and better for the planet.
Everything we do is about Making Better Happen™.
AAK Denmark
Located in the Port of Aarhus, AAK Denmark is the oldest site in AAK founded in 1871 and the world’s largest producer of shea oil and fats. These are mostly used in the chocolate and confectionery industries, but shea oil is also used in cosmetics. Our highly automated production process runs 24/7 – 365 days a year, supervised by expert operators from our central control room. Our oil and fats laboratory is responsible for the development of AAK’s global process technologies, which contribute to cleaner and more efficient manufacturing, and more sustainable end products. Our product development team manages development activity across the group, in close collaboration with the Customer Innovation Center. Our site’s large IT team also works across the globe.
About the role
In the AAK’s Global Confectionery Center of Excellence, located in Aarhus, Denmark, you must be able to combine the production of chocolate and its analysis. You work in close collaboration with dedicated colleagues who all share the passion for chocolate. The team of chocolate technicians contributes in various contexts to AAK's vision of being "first choice for value-adding vegetable oil solutions".
You will contribute to the vision by:
- transforming ideas and projects into finished chocolates with unique properties. Here, developers and customer technicians are supported in the design and execution of development-oriented or customer-driven trials. You will be an active sparring partner in our development experiments.
- Contributing with a practical approach to teaching AAK's regional colleagues and core customers in chocolate processes and product properties at AAK academies, and through direct collaboration with AAK regions across the globe and selected customers at Global Confectionery Center of Excellence to showcase the role, benefits and advantages of our ingredients in chocolate and confectionery applications.
- Supporting sales and marketing through the production of inspiration and taste samples for exhibitions and seminars.
You will be part of a strong team of six direct collogues who work closely together with hands-on production of chocolate and confectionery to test, prove, document, and showcase our ingredient solutions to the different AAK regions, partners, and customers. You will work with and use advanced analysis equipment in our mini chocolate factory and implement and employ sensory analysis to quantify the benefits of our ingredients in the confectionery applications. You will be involved in the development of new methods for analysis and creative chocolate applications.
When carrying out trials, several standard processes and methods are used to a large extent, including.
- Mixing, rolling and conching chocolates, compounds and fillings
- Temper chocolate and mold pralines and bars
- Carry out analysis – durability, texture, viscosity, rheology, sensory, melt profiles (DSC), etc.
- Analysis correlations in applications, e.g. textures, how chocolate behaves under specific conditions and which statistical correlations can be derived and how it correlates with sensory analysis
- Operate and maintain existing chocolate and analysis equipment as well as commissioning new equipment
- Contribute to maintaining a well-functioning, safe and clean chocolate laboratory
About you
Ideally, you have a higher education such as e.g. chemist, food engineer, food scientist, pharmacist, process technologist or similar with a strong proven background working in Analytical in Food Industry, preferably in confectionery Industry.
A proven record working in Sensory analysis is a strong differentiator.
We attach great importance to your ability to combine theory with your own practical experience to achieve the right understanding of fat chemistry, processes, and the function of the ingredients in chocolate. You should naturally be able to communicate observations, results and knowledge to partners locally and globally.
Attention to detail, responsibility, humor, commitment, initiative and the ability to contribute to good collaboration in the team are valued very highly and you must like to use your hands and enjoy the fact that your work is not stationary.
In return AAK offer
We offer a challenging, exciting and varied working day with motivated and engaged colleagues in an environment where there is an informal tone and where humor is part of everyday life. AAK is a company that practices "freedom with responsibility", and you can therefore expect a great influence on your everyday life and tasks.
Furthermore, you can expect:
Great working atmosphere where everyone matters.
Diverse and challenging international projects within procurement.
Investment in your development with training, mentorship and career paths.
A divers and inclusive workplace that values every individual´s perspective and talents.
Need to know more?
Contact Karin Dahl, team leader, tel. 6114 8739 or e-mail: karin.dahl@aak.com for further information about the job preferably Monday to Wednesday between 9-11.
We are looking to fill the role as quickly as possible and therefor assess applications on an ongoing basis, but we are willing to wait for the right candidate.
About AAK
Everything AAK does is about Making Better Happen™. We specialize in plant-based oils that are the value-adding ingredients in many of the products people love to consume. We make these products better tasting, healthier, and more sustainable. At the heart of AAK’s offer is Customer Co-Development, combining our desire to understand what better means for each customer, with the unique flexibility of our production assets, and a deep knowledge of many products and industries, including Chocolate & Confectionery, Bakery, Dairy, Plant-based Foods, Special Nutrition, Foodservice and Personal Care. Our 4,000 employees support our close collaboration with customers through 25 regional sales offices, 15 dedicated Customer Innovation Centers, and with the support of more than 20 production facilities. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and with our headquarters in Malmö, Sweden, AAK has been Making Better Happen™ for more than 150 years.
AAK prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, religion, veteran status, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under state or federal law in any aspect of the access to, admission, or treatment of students in its programs and activities, or in employment and application for employment.
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