Techniek vacatures bij Stamicarbon

The Company

At Stamicarbon, the innovation and license company of MAIRE Group, we develop, design and license futureproof, innovative fertilizer plant technologies, with urea, green ammonia and nitric acid being our core businesses. Using more than 75 years of knowledge and experience, we offer our customers customized solutions and services to maintain, improve and optimize plants, such as process engineering, proprietary equipment, and full life cycle plant support. We take pride in being innovative and developing reliable, safe and sustainable fertilizer solutions.

From our headquarters in Sittard in the south of the Netherlands, we serve several hundred customers in more than 80 countries, with a proven track record of more than 1.000 sold licenses.

The Challenge

The Strategic R&D department is part of the MTIC group within the Stamicarbon organization, the Licensing and IP center for the MAIRE Group. This department is working in a project environment being responsible for the coordination and execution of strategic innovation projects. To catch up with the expanding business and to further strengthen Stamicarbon's strategic R&D department we are recruiting for a:

R&D Test Engineer Solids Processing

In this role you organize, follow and supervise the test programs on the relevant new technologies to produce nitrogen-based, nutrient and efficiency enhanced, sustainable specialty fertilizers, and report on related outcomes, as a support to the technology development activities of the company.

Your key areas of responsibility are to:

• Develop know-how of and IP for new and improved technologies to produce specialty fertilizers;

• Support Strategic R&D projects, by organizing, coordinating, executing and reporting on test activities;

• Test and co-develop new finishing technologies for new nitrogen-based specialty fertilizers;

• Setup laboratory test programs, to investigate, for example, fertilizer product quality;

• Setup bench scale and pilot plant test programs and prepare, organize and execute these test programs, to develop and test new technologies for specialty fertilizer production;

• Cooperate with internal as well as external partners such as research institutes, universities, equipment vendors and customers for test activities;

• Supervise tests performed at external partner facilities, and report on the test outcomes;

• Act as operator/experimenter for bench scale or pilot plant tests;

• Propose improvements for next laboratory scale, bench scale or pilot plant test runs;

• Participate in the scaling-up of the pilot plant test results to industrial scale applications;

• Support the transfer of a successfully developed technology into running business, by supporting and contributing to the preparation of a technology transfer package;

• Execute all activities in an international setting (in- as well as outside Stamicarbon);

• Frequent travelling abroad, sometimes for longer periods of time.

The Candidate

You combine at least a Bachelor Degree level in an Engineering Discipline (preferable Chemical or Mechanical Engineering) with at least 5 years of work experience, working as an R&D Test Engineer or Process or Plant Engineer in a technical environment in the process industry. You have a professional understanding of process technologies (gas/fluid/solids processing), and a good knowledge about and experience with job safety and HAZOP studies. Having practical experience with solids handling (e.g. storage, dosing, milling, screening, etc.) and finishing technologies (e.g. granulation, spray drying, compacting, etc.) is a must. Conceptual process engineering skills are necessary to design or adapt pilot plants for its test applications and for translating newly developed technologies to full scale production.

As a potential new colleague, you have the personality to think in solutions instead of thinking in problems and the ability to coordinate projects in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams. You are goal oriented, analytical, accurate and flexible. You show a true team spirit, can connect easily with colleagues and customers and you are driven to share your knowledge, to coach and support people. Therefore, good communication skills and an excellent command of English (verbally as well as written) are necessary for the success of this position. A good command of the German language is preferred as well. You enjoy frequent travelling abroad.

The Reward

Stamicarbon offers a rewarding and challenging job with opportunities for personal input. The organization is 100% internationally focused, has the ambition to expand and offers individual possibilities to learn and develop in a true business environment. There is an open and very pleasant atmosphere with plenty of room for discussion with highly committed fellow professionals and a good sense of humor. Terms and conditions of employment as well as fringe benefits are above market standards. Stamicarbon's office is located in Sittard, Limburg, The Netherlands. For further information about this position, please contact us via

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