Careers
Avantium is a rapidly growing company employing more than 100 highly skilled employees drawn from 15 different nationalities. Market-driven and technology-based, Avantium serves customers in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries throughout the world. Avantium is proud to be a leading company in high-throughput R&D.
Avantium's employees are dynamic and enthusiastic people, open-minded, ambitious and professional. The company fosters creativity as well as a result-oriented, customer-oriented attitude. The company evaluates these core competences of all employees on a regular basis. Avantium expects you to come up with exciting new ideas and initiatives. Your contribution can really make a difference!
Avantium's people are its most important asset and that is why we believe it is essential that we help you to develop your skills and competences. You'll be given the opportunity to receive individual training (e.g. courses on relevant subjects such as catalysis or crystallization sciences, or on relevant skills such as project management, presenting, negotiating, etc). And you are given opportunities to attend lectures and workshops organized by outside experts.
There are many examples of people who have achieved a successful career within the Avantium organization. Here is just an example that highlight career development options offered by Avantium. One of the engineers who joined Avantium in 2000 moved on to become the Project Leader of our Chemicals team. Two years later he was promoted to become Senior Project Leader and is now responsible for technical development within the Tools division.