Production Development Department (Leader Candidate)

■ About Us
Integriculture is a startup that utilizes its cell culture technology “Culnet System®” to promote the social implementation of sustainable cell-cultured foods (so-called cultured meat).
Aiming to solve global challenges such as food and environmental problems, we are a company that cultivates the “culture of the future” through our daily business at the frontier of the technological field of “cellular agriculture”.

■ About This Position
The Production Development Department is responsible for promoting the improvement and scaling up of production technology for cell-cultured foods. You will be responsible for leading projects in this department.

■ Job Overview
① You will be responsible for analyzing, improving, and scaling up our CulNet System (biomimicry machine) and implementing projects to socially implement a serum substitute production system.
② You will be responsible for advancing the production process for manufacturing cell-cultured foods (especially process design, improvement, and scaling up related to product reactors) and implementing projects to socially implement cell-cultured foods.
③ You will be responsible for promoting the creation and systematization of documents for food certification of cell-cultured foods.

■Specifically…
・Considering scale-up equipment
・Improving cell culture methods
・Improving the quality of cell supernatant
・Handling external communications (government, etc.)
・Promoting HACCP

You will gain business promotion skills by experiencing the process from product development to social implementation.

■Recruitment background This
　recruitment is for the purpose of increasing staff .

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Our company aims to cultivate a new market for cell-cultured foods, and we are constantly working on creating an environment where cells can grow healthily, developing materials for cell culture, developing equipment for cell growth, and processing cell-cultured foods. We are a company that can provide new products to the market. You can help build the future culture of “cellular agriculture” while taking on the challenge of solving the problems facing protein resources in the world.

Recruitment Information
Capacity:1 person
Working hours:9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Flexible working hours (with core time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM), Standard working hours: 8 hours, Break: 60 minutes
Holidays and vacations 122 days per year
　- Breakdown: Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, summer special leave (5 days)
　- Paid leave: 10 days in the first year (number of days may vary depending on the month of joining, maximum of 20 days granted)

Required skills and experience

* Individuals engaged in life science research
* Graduates of technical colleges or universities
* Individuals without bird or egg allergies

Desired skills and experience:
Candidates with experience in the following areas will be given preferential treatment:
• Experience in regenerative medicine, drug discovery, or the food industry
• Experience in various animal cell cultures • Ability to present
research findings and participate in conferences in English
• PhD holders

Desired candidate profile:
We are looking for individuals who:
• Can view things objectively and think logically
• Value teamwork more than individual performance
• Want to take on challenges in technologies and businesses that will change society
• Are honest, cheerful, and outgoing, possess strong social skills, and are willing to take on uncharted territories
• Can identify the challenges necessary to achieve their goals and proactively work towards solving them.

Treatment
Employment type: Full-time employee
Expected annual salary: 5 to 7 million yen
Health insurance: Yes
Employee pension: Yes Unemployment insurance: Yes Workers’ Compensation insurance:Yes
Other requirements
*Reference Videos:
　• About the Cellular Agriculture Initiative / Featuring CEO Yuki Hanyu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtfdgJTQRs

　• Getting Closer to Cell Culture Technology Companies / Featuring CTO Kazuhiko Kawashima
　　 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3rkCJN_OMw

References:
　• Journal of the Society for Biotechnology, “Development of Cell Culture Technology Utilizing Food-Grade Raw Materials” by Kazuhiko Kawashima
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seibutsukogaku/102/5/102_102.5_223/_pdf/-char/en

Work place
Kanagawa Prefecture

Recruitment locations
RD
Shonan iPark A32F-3111, 2-26-1 Muraoka-Higashi, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture