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Thanks to its unique, flexible, circular service concept and the extensive expertise built up over many decades, DESOTEC unburdens its industrial customers and helps industries grow and thrive while reducing the environmental impact of their operations.DESOTEC's customer base is constantly growing thanks to a strong focus on 24/7 service and a commitment to design and deliver the best purification solution in close dialogue with the customer. DESOTEC has about450 employees worldwide, all committed to helping protect the planet by driving positive ecological change across industries. In 2026, DESOTEC earned its second consecutive EcoVadis Gold rating for sustainability, placing it among the top 5% of companies assessed worldwide.\nFurther information is available at www.desotec.com. Follow @desotec on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.\nYour tasks & responsibilities?\nAs an R&D Project Lead, you will play a key role in innovative projects that have a direct impact on our products, internal processes, customers, and strategy. Thanks to the wide variety of projects, you will have the opportunity to turn ideas into practical applications with a tangible environmental impact.\nYou develop and improve productsYou work on the development and validation of sustainable, high-performance solutions for a wide range of environmental challenges. This includes applications such as biogas purification, PFAS and VOC removal, odor control, soil remediation, and wastewater treatment.\n\nYou translate ideas into R&D strategiesTogether with your colleagues, you transform innovative ideas into tangible R&D projects that contribute to DESOTEC’s growth and sustainability ambitions.\n\nYou manage and coordinate impactful R&D projectsYou take ownership of R&D projects from concept to implementation. You create clear project plans, monitor priorities, deadlines, and milestones, and proactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks. As the central point of contact, you collaborate with the R&D team, colleagues from other departments, and external partners to successfully deliver projects that support DESOTEC’s objectives.\n\nYou connect R&D with the wider organizationYou ensure that research projects are aligned with the broader business strategy and communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. You translate complex technical insights into clear, relevant information tailored to your audience. Rather than waiting for input, you proactively engage stakeholders and bring the right people together to drive projects forward.\n\nYou represent DESOTEC as a subject matter expertYou help showcase DESOTEC’s expertise through presentations, customer visits, webinars, and technical information sheets. Together with your team, you share knowledge, inspire stakeholders, and contribute to building strong relationships with customers and partners.\n\nYou stay up to date with technological trendsYou are curious about emerging and competing technologies and continuously assess their relevance and potential applications for our business.\n\nWho are you?\nYou are a driven professional with a passion for innovation and environmental technology. You combine strong analytical skills with a structured approach and enjoy taking ownership of your work. Through clear communication and natural leadership, you are able to engage colleagues, stakeholders, and partners in complex projects and innovative ideas.\nYou hold a Master’s degree in ascientific or technical field and have at least 3-5 years of relevant experience in R&D, innovation projects, or environmental technology.\nExperience in environmental technology, water or air treatment, adsorption technology, analytical chemistry, or a related technical field is considered a strong asset.\nYou are fluent in Dutch and English; additional languages are a plus.\nYou combine ahands-on mentality with a strong eagerness to learn and a natural curiosity.\nYou take initiative, bring structure to your work, and are comfortable taking responsibility.\nYou thrive in a coordinating role and collaborate effectively with colleagues, stakeholders, and external partners.\nYou have strong analytical skills while keeping the practical, operational, and economic impact of your decisions in mind.\nYou are highly data-driven and comfortable working with data. You can extract valuable insights from research results and datasets and translate them into well-founded recommendations. Strongproficiency in Excel is essential.\nYou are willing to travel occasionally within Europe (approximately once every 2-3 months) for conferences, customer visits, and meetings with research and technology partners.\nWhat's in it for you?\nIt goes without saying that you get a lot in return in exchange for your unbridled dedication and enthusiasm:\nA competitive salary - We guarantee you a competitive base salary, depending on your experience.\n\nFringe benefits - To optimize your salary package, you can count on a smartphone with a mobile subscription, a generous net expense reimbursement, meal vouchers, group and hospitalization insurance (AG Insurance), a non-recurrent CAO90 bonus, two annual gross bonuses.\n\nFlex Income Plan - You can convert part of your end-of-year bonus into benefits that suit your lifestyle, such as extra leave, multimedia, or a lease bike. This gives you the freedom to take control of your reward package and personalize it in a way that truly works for you, all within the applicable legal framework.\n\nWork-life-balance / hybrid working - You work during flexible hours.\n\nTime off to schedule freely - At DESOTEC there is no collective closure. You enjoy 29 paid vacation days and have the freedom to take 10 unpaid vacation days on top of that. This way you can increase your number of vacation days to 39 days!\n\nPersonal & professional growth - You will have every opportunity to immerse yourself in your new role, but also to grow personally and professionally through an extensive range of training courses.\n\nStay active & social - As an employee with a permanent contract, you can enjoy one free group sport lesson/activity per week at the Vision 21 gym in Roeselare, including activities like boxing, pilates, spinning, padel and more.\n\nDiscounts through partnerships - Through Benefits at Work you get discounts at Center Parcs, Zalando, bol.com, Krëfel, Decathlon and many more.\n\nFun and relaxation - You will regularly be invited to one of the many afterworks and other fun activities. Each team also gets a team building budget - it's up to you how you spend it!\n\nStructured onboarding - We prepare a tailored onboarding plan for every new starter, ensuring a smooth integration into your team, tools, and DESOTEC’s mission from day one.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6922,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Dutch","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T23:58:39Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":11,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.404,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":84,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-08T05:49:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/desotec-rd-project-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/desotec-rd-project-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-09T02:52:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1254,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3746,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2185799},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2185799"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdesotec-rd-project-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdesotec-rd-project-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdesotec-rd-project-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/desotec-rd-project-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdesotec-rd-project-lead"}]}