Intern

About the Role

A 10-week paid, skill-enriching, innovation-generating summer advantage program at Hilmar Cheese Company. Interns will innovate, collaborate, and deliver on exciting projects, bringing fresh ideas to real-life business situations at the Hilmar, CA site.

Key Responsibilities

• Finding the optimum, most cost-effective methods of manufacturing dairy products.
• Sampling, data collection, and analysis.
• Creating proposals to reduce operating costs, process capacity constraints, product losses, and product quality variation.
• Identification of the causes of waste within manufacturing processes and recommendations for actions to eliminate waste.
• Development of standard work processes to implement and sustain identified improvement opportunities.
• Validating that all electrical prints are up to date and accurate and stored properly.
• Utility optimization of steam, refrigeration systems, compressed air, domestic water, and wastewater.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Completion of Sophomore year at a university.
• Working towards a degree in Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Manufacturing, or related field.
• Basic knowledge of MS Office products: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Strong applied technical skills and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Reliable transportation to and from work.

Qualifications

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

• Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
• Stand and walk almost the entire workday.
• Physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within their respective area.
• Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
• Pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, repetitive bending.
• Exposure to dust, fumes, smoke, gases, or other irritating substances.
• Exposure to solvents or chemicals.
• Exposure to slippery walking surfaces (water).
• Exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity.
• Working surface is primarily concrete, with rubber mats where standing is required.
• Food safety is a companywide responsibility; each employee must know their role in the manufacture and distribution of safe, wholesome, and high-quality products.