Michiel Smets
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Michiel Smets is from Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium. Michiel works in the following industries: "Biotechnology Research". Michiel is currently Lead Buyer Renewable Energy at Borealis, located in Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium. In Michiel's previous role as a EMEA Electricity Lead at Cargill, Michiel worked in EMEA until Mar 2022. Prior to joining Cargill, Michiel was a EU Technical Management Trainee (TMT) at Cargill and held the position of EU Technical Management Trainee (TMT) at Herent. Prior to that, Michiel was a In-Company Project at Cargill, based in Herent from May 2018 to Jun 2018. Michiel started working as Master Thesis Student at imec in Leuven in Aug 2016.
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As a Technical Management Trainee for Cargill, I was operationally involved in the production area of our European facilities in the Malt business. In this role, I needed to learn and lead the manufactering process in an international environment. In addition, I was highly involved in the startup of our new logistic center in the port of Antwerp an focused on the energy balance and governing legislation (EU ETS, EBO,...) . Next to my operational development, through the Young Graduate program, I further developped my softskills such as presentation skills, MBTI in practice, receiving and giving feedback,...
During an 8 week internship at Cargill Herent, I worked on strategic solutions and engineering implementations for the energy department on the plant level. This internship was performed to obtain my masters degree in General Management.
During a time period of 10 months I worked together with my supervisor on the development of a microfluidic device for high-throughput sorting of yeast strains based on phenotype. The work consisted of technical development of the device but also on the biological research for yeast strain selection.