Food QA Summer Internship: Lead Process & Quality Insights

OSI Group; Oakland Township (IA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

OSI Group is offering a food manufacturing internship in Iowa, designed to provide hands-on experience with line operations and project-based tasks.

You'll collect and review test results, document data, draft SOPs, monitor corrective actions, and participate in cross-functional teams while preparing a final presentation for management at internship end. The role emphasizes learning about yield improvement, waste reduction, and adherence to safety standards in a manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in collecting and documenting test results and data.
• Ability to analyze quality metrics and identify trends.
• Familiarity with standard operating procedures and auditing basics.

Responsibilities

• Collect, document, review, and transfer test results from external sources to internal documentation
• Perform data collection, trend quality metrics, and communicate results
• Draft, implement, and maintain SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Assist in developing, updating, and monitoring of corrective and preventive actions
• Daily logging of incoming raw materials into a database
• Sample preparation testing
• Learn and apply standards and principles of auditing and related techniques
• Ability to analyze audit data to identify trends and summarize in reports with recommendations to management
• Participate in cross-functional projects, work groups.

Skills

Data collection

Quality metrics

Trend analysis

Documentation

Tools

SOPs

Audit techniques

Job description

OSI Group is offering a food manufacturing internship in Iowa, designed to provide hands-on experience with line operations and project-based tasks.

You'll collect and review test results, document data, draft SOPs, monitor corrective actions, and participate in cross-functional teams while preparing a final presentation for management at internship end. The role emphasizes learning about yield improvement, waste reduction, and adherence to safety standards in a manufacturing setting.