Scientific Staff Member in Quality Management and Food Law 80% | Possibility of Home Office (hybrid)

Scientific Staff Member in Quality Management and Food Law 80% | Possibility of Home Office (hybrid)

Are you interested in a versatile and challenging task with inspiring contacts to students, continuing education participants, and project partners?

Department: Life Sciences and Facility Management

Start of work: immediately or by agreement

• You supervise student work, exercises, and case studies and enjoy working with students
• You teach Food Law, Food Safety, and Quality Management at the Bachelor's level and give independent presentations
• You participate in the organization and implementation of continuing education courses, the CAS Food Law certificate program, and the Wädenswil Food Law Conference
• You acquire projects from industry/administration in the field of Quality Management, Food Safety, and Food Law
• You take on project work depending on suitability/previous knowledge/profile
• You contribute to the maintenance of the subject group's homepage and the creation of the monthly newsletter ·
• You maintain your network and exchange with industry and administration
• You support the subject group management in organizational and administrative matters
• Degree in Food Technology ETH/FH or equivalent training with several years of solid professional experience in the food industry or with authorities in the field of Food Law, Food Safety, Quality Management
• High interest and competence in topics and questions of Food Law and Food Safety
• Team player as well as a versatile, flexible, communicative, and resilient personality
• Structured, precise, goal-oriented, and customer-oriented working style
• Enjoyment in accompanying students and continuing education participants on their educational journey
• Affinity for the topic of digitalization in teaching
• Excellent language skills in German and English

The ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest multi-disciplinary universities of applied sciences in Switzerland, with over 14,000 students and over 11,000 continuing education participants, as well as around 3,700 employees.

The ZHAW is committed to gender-mixed and diverse teams to promote equality, diversity, and innovation.

Life Sciences and Facility Management: Studying and researching in Wädenswil: practice-oriented, creative, passionate, and reflective. With our competencies in Life Sciences and Facility Management, we make an important contribution to solving our societal challenges and improving our quality of life in the areas of Environment, Food, and Health.

Institute for Food and Beverage Innovation: "We understand food" – this holistic approach guides our institute. We consider all developments relevant to food in society, economy, technology, and nature. In doing so, we focus on "managing the making of better food and beverages" in close collaboration with companies, institutions, and authorities. The institute's focus is thus on the application-oriented mastery and optimization of production processes.

The QM and Food Law subject group is dedicated to the topics of Quality Management and Food Law both scientifically and in practical implementation in food businesses. Knowing that excellent performance can only be achieved through collaboration between practice and teaching/research, the subject group sees itself as a bridge between university and industry.

We offer university-appropriate working and employment conditions and actively promote the personal development of our employees and leaders. A detailed description of the benefits can be found on the website "Working at ZHAW". Here are the key points:

Dr. Evelyn Kirchsteiger-Meier

Head of the QM and Food Law Subject Group

Manuela Laure

Recruiting Manager