Engineering Doctorate (EngD Traineeship) in Designer in Bioprocess Engineering

Engineering Doctorate (EngD Traineeship) in Designer in Bioprocess Engineering

45 days remaining

Engineering Doctorate (EngD Traineeship) in Designer in Bioprocess Engineering

Deadline 1 May ’26 Published today Vacancy ID 3092 45 days remaining Research fields Engineering Job types Research, development, innovation Education level University graduate Weekly hours 40 hours per week Salary indication max. €3029 per month

Location

Mekelweg 5, 2628CD, Delft

Job description

The Engineering Doctorate in Designer in Bioprocess Engineering at Delft University of Technology can be the catalyst for a career in biotech.
Join this unique programme in Delft!


Job description
Participate in a one-of-a-kind programme at a world-renowned biotech pioneer. At Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), you can apply your technical knowledge to projects with key companies in the biotech industry at a doctorate level.

Make impact on the biotech world. Join us in Delft, at Europe’s biggest innovation campus, and become a Designer in Bioprocess Engineering.

Our trainee programme as Designer in Biochemical Engineering will give you a solid foundation for your career as a bioprocess designer. You’ll also gain project management skills and business knowledge so that you can evaluate the implementation of developed processes in an industrial environment. There’s plenty of room for personal development too. Our programme will help you boost your independence, creativity and critical thinking-all crucial skills in the innovative interdisciplinary field of biochemical engineering.

In your first year, you’ll take some mandatory courses including economic evaluation and project management and your choice of advanced courses in fermentation technology, microbiology, downstream processing, environmental biotechnology or biocatalysts. You’ll also contribute to a group design project. During your second year, you’ll work on an individual design project carried out in, or in close collaboration with, a partner in the biotech industry.

Working in our state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll become a team player who can hold their own in any international setting. Day-to-day, you’ll find yourself in a close-knit group that our trainees affectionately call their "international family". This will teach you how to navigate multicultural environments, a very useful skill in today’s increasingly global job market. If all goes well, this two-year position will lead to an Engineering Doctorate in Bioprocess Engineering. This expertise is in demand and you’ll enjoy great prospects for a professional international career in all facets of bioprocess development.

The webpage of the Department of Biotechnology can be found here .

Job requirements
You’re looking for a career in the international biotech industry. Process design and development and the application of technology are of particular interest to you.

Keen on European work experience, you speak excellent English, and you have an open, creative mind and a critical attitude. A top ten percenter at your current university, you want to pit yourself against the best in a competitive multicultural team, where you’ll be pushed to your limits.

• The programme welcomes applications from well-qualified students who have successfully completed 5 years of university training (MSc, Ir., Engineering Diploma).
• You must hold an MSc degree in (Bio-)Chemical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Environmental or Food technology, or comparable, with excellent results
• From our EngD-trainees, we expect an interdisciplinary attitude, an eye for application of technology in industry and team skills.
• Another relevant qualification, within the discretion of the Selection Committee.

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)
Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

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Faculty Applied Sciences
With more than 1,100 employees, including 150 pioneering principal investigators, as well as a population of about 3,600 passionate students, the Faculty of Applied Sciences is an inspiring scientific ecosystem. Focusing on key enabling technologies, such as quantum- and nanotechnology, photonics, biotechnology, synthetic biology and materials for energy storage and conversion, our faculty aims to provide solutions to important problems of the 21st century. To that end, we educate innovative students in broad Bachelor’s and specialist Master’s programmes with a strong research component. Our scientists conduct ground-breaking fundamental and applied research in the fields of Life and Health Science & Technology, Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Radiation Science & Technology, and Engineering Physics. We are also training the next generation of high school teachers.

Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

Conditions of employment

• Duration of contract is a 1-year contract from the Delft University of Technology with a 1-year extension.
• A job of 40 hours per week.
• A salary based on Technisch ontwerper in opleiding of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a salary between €3029 gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Additional information
If you would like more information about this vacancy or the selection procedure, please contact Patricia Carrion Gordon, Programme Manager EngD BPE, via bpe-engdtudelft.nl or +31 (0)15-2783438.

Application procedure
Are you interested in this vacancy? Please apply no later than 1 May 2026 via the application button and upload the following documents:

• Cover letter explaining why you’re interested in a traineeship in bioprocess engineering (no more than 1 A4 page).
• Curriculum Vitae (no more than 2 pages A4)
• Copies of your master’s and bachelor’s diplomas.
• Master’s and bachelor’s degree transcripts including grades and a scale with the maximum, minimum and passing grades.
• Evidence of proficiency in the English language* if you are a non-native English speaker without an English-taught master’s degree. This will be reviewed after the pre-selection.
• Good command of spoken and written English can be demonstrated by successfully passing one of the following tests (certificates should not be older than two years):

1. TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language internet-Based Test) with an overall band score of 100 with scores of at least 21 for each section. TU Delft does not accept TOEFL MyBest scores; the scores must have been achieved in a single test;
2. IELTS (International English Language Testing System, academic version) with an overall band score of at least 7.0 with scores of at least 6.5 for each section.

Native speakers will be exempted from the English test requirement, as well as, in principle, non-native applicants who have obtained an English-taught Master’s degree. If during the selection process it is deemed that the English proficiency of the applicant with an English-taught Master’s degree does not meet the requirements, they may also be asked to do a test.

Your application will be evaluated by the EngD selection committee. If selected for an interview, you will be asked to prepare a presentation. A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.

INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS won’t be reviewed.

Please note:

• You can apply online. We will not process applications sent by email and/or post.
• A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
• For the final candidates, a knowledge security check will be part of the application procedure. For more information on this check, please consult Chapter 8 of the National Knowledge Security Guidelines . We carry out this check on the basis of legitimate interest.
• Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.

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