QC Lab Technician

QC Lab technician

Join Oterra in making natural food and beverages easy, for a sustainable and healthy world. 
Headquartered in Denmark, with production sites in Europe, Latin America, and the US, we’re a passionate team of over 1400 team members of 48 nationalities in 27 countries worldwide, serving 120 markets globally. As the leading worldwide provider of natural colors, we offer food and beverage manufacturers an alternative to artificial colors. Food and health are at the heart of everything we do and every day over 400 million people eat a product with our colors in it. We believe that nature got it right the first time. 

Meet your new team! 

We are looking for a talented QC Lab Technician to join our growing team. Based in our production site in Avedøre, you’ll join a dedicated team that performs physical/chemical and microbiological tests.  

What would you role look like?

As a QC Lab Technician you should be able to work in microbiological and physical/chemical lab. We are a team of 14 colleagues covering all shifts – day, evening and night shifts. 
After full training your workdays you will need to work 4 weeks on dayshift and 4 weeks on night shift. Working on our day shift, the hours are flexible between 6.00-16.00 from Monday to Friday. The night shift is a 4-day week from Monday to Thursday from 21.45-06.15. 

Duties and responsibilities:

We work with some of the following analysis: 

•    Standard microbiological analysis 
•    Spectrophotometric analysis
•    Particle sizes
•    Datacolor
•    HPLC (not much) etc. 

We work from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon supporting the production during the process. You will part of the standardizing of the products and therefore you need to be able to do standard calculations after you have been trained in them. Our daily language is danish, but we have much global communication in English. 

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate is a trained lab technician or similar.
You can either have a lot of experience within analysis or newly graduated eager to learn. What is important for us is, that you are able to work in a complex environment and that you are able to work with several things at one time.

If you are used to work in SAP it is an advantage but not a must. 

Experience and skills required

•    Lab skills
•    Flexibility

What can we offer?

We can offer an exciting opportunity in an ambitious organization, where commitment is strong, and where we work with the purpose of improving our processes and results. We have an informal tone, and put a high value on teamwork, working together, and transparency.

•    Canteen, free soft drinks, health insurance and pension 
•    Competitive compensation package
•    Continuous opportunities for learning and career progression
•    Central location with free onsite parking
•    Social workplace with Friday breakfasts, summer party, Christmas party, plus many social activities such as DHL and sports days.
•    Employee discounts on a wide range of attractions and products   

Further information and application

We would love to know more about you and your motivation for this job! Please send us a CV in English or danish, latest June 20th, 2025. If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact hiring managers Anja Lindholm at anja.lindholm@oterra.com or Jannik Jørgensen at jannik.joergensen@oterra.com

Please note that we will be working with a continuous selection process, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidates. So, don’t delay, please send us your application today.

Start: As soon as possible, with regards of the notice period.