Application Specialist

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Department

FOSS Northern Europe

Haferweg 26

22769 Hamburg

Country

Germany

FOSS is a leading international manufacturer of analytical system solutions for the food and agricultural industries. Our analysis systems are essentially based on infrared technology and set standards in laboratory and process applications. As a subsidiary of the parent company based in Denmark, we market our products with great success in Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for a talented in-house Application Specialist, to be based in our Hamburg office.

As our new Application Specialist, you will be the main driver in installing software and ensuring integration into existing systems. This includes networks and virtual servers. You'll be the in-house regional expert on software systems, responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining applications while providing technical support and training to users.

Further, you will:

• Review and support customers' calibration and application requirements
• Update calibrations as needed and write calibration reports
• Implementation of user seminars
• Customer support (via hotline/remote)
• Provide performance support, maintain strong customer relationships, and ensure high-quality calibration service
• Support of sales with application expertise

Your profile

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., chemistry, engineering, food science, agriculture, or a related discipline)
• Experience with analytical instruments
• Knowledge of statistics and statistics package software/Matlab
• Experience in chemometrics and use of modelling tools
• Experience in PC-related topics (SQL database, PC setup, network setup, virtual server)
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work independently
• Fluent English in written and spoken
• Willingness and ability to travel locally and internationally
• Knowledge of MS Office and CRM systems is desirable

What we offer

We offer you the opportunity to work independently in a dynamic team within an international environment. Personal responsibility as well as the professional and personal development of our employees are very important to us. You will receive a performance-related salary appropriate to the position, workplace health promotion as well as the opportunity to acquire the EGYM Wellpass, good further education and training opportunities, company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits and many other benefits.

Interested?

We look forward to receiving your detailed application documents, including your salary expectations and the earliest possible starting date.

Submit your application through the link. Please note that only applications sent through the link will be considered.

If you have any questions about the advertised position, please contact Michael Arens via or by phone at

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

FOSS

Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, being the effects it has on climate change.

FOSS helps the world's 100 biggest food companies and more than 40,000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business and we're doing so as global market leader in our field – improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety, and securing fair payment.

Join a pioneering and innovative company in the food and agriculture industry. A company on a mission, with offices all around the world and 1,700 talented colleagues from more than 32 different countries.