Interested in a career that matters?

At Novonesis, we believe solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. We are looking for a passionate and technically strong professional to join our Dairy Regional Application Center (RAC) in Beijing and make a real impact through customer-facing technical excellence and scientific expertise.

The Role & Your Impact

As a Cheese Technical Support & Application Scientist, you will play a critical role in supporting our customers in pasta filata cheese production, while also leading phage analysis and contamination control to safeguard production stability.

You will act as a key technical link between Novonesis and our customers, ensuring the effective application of our cultures and coagulants, supporting new product launches, and helping customers optimize performance, quality, and production continuity. Your work will directly contribute to customer satisfaction and reinforce Novonesis’ leading position in the pasta filata cheese market.

Your Key Responsibilities Include:

• Provide professional technical consultation and on-site support to pasta filata cheese manufacturers on the application of cultures and coagulants, including dosage and process optimization
• Collaborate with Sales to deliver technical training, product demonstrations, and seminars for customers and internal stakeholders
• Collect, analyze, and summarize customer feedback, application cases, and production challenges to drive continuous improvement
• Develop and maintain application-related documentation, including guidelines, troubleshooting manuals, and case studies
• Conduct application work such as pasta filata baking tests and provide technical guidance to optimize product functionality
• Support customers in the application of cultures and coagulants for Enzyme Modified Cheese (EMC) and Enzyme Modified Dairy Ingredients (EMDI) production, focusing on formulation adjustment, process optimization, and quality improvement
• Deliver professional phage services, including phage troubleshooting, routine monitoring, and support for secure new product launches
• Respond to phage contamination incidents, conduct root cause investigations, and provide actionable solutions to minimize production losses
• Provide clear and accurate phage monitoring reports to support safe and stable customer production

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

• Master’s degree or above in Dairy Technology, Food Science, Food Engineering, Microbiology, or a related discipline
• Hands-on experience in cheese technology; experience with pasta filata cheese is strongly preferred
• Experience in technical service, application, product development, or dairy manufacturing support
• Strong understanding of pasta filata cheese processing, starter cultures, fermentation behavior, and phage-related risks
• Experience with laboratory, pilot, and industrial trials, and the ability to translate technical data into practical recommendations
• Strong communication, presentation, and documentation skills
• Fluent in English
• Willingness to travel for customer support, trials, and plant visits as required

Additional Skills & Interests We Value

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Customer-focused and service-oriented approach
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities
• Strong collaboration skills across technical and commercial teams
• Interest in continuous improvement and technical innovation

What We Offer

• A customer-facing technical role with strong impact on product performance and customer success
• Exposure to advanced dairy technology, phage analysis, and application development
• Close collaboration with Sales, R&D, and global technical networks
• Opportunities for professional growth within a global biosolutions leader

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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