Paid Manufacturing Internship: Build Processes & Cut Waste

Hilmar; Dodge City (KS); On-site; USD 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

Hilmar Cheese Company offers a 10-week paid internship aimed at engineering, operations management, and manufacturing disciplines. Interns will engage in real projects, dairy plant visits, and leadership conversations, gaining hands-on exposure to howHilmar creates wholesome dairy products and services that impact lives worldwide.

As an intern at our Hilmar, CA site, you’ll work on projects with employees, learn from senior leaders, and explore career paths within a fast-growing company.

Qualifications

• Completion of Sophomore year at a college or university and working towards a degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Business, Food Science, Dairy Science or Ag Management/Science.
• 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

Responsibilities

• Improvement of a specific process, product line, or function within one or more of the cheese or whey plants
• Identification of opportunities to reduce the cost of production for a specific product or production line
• Identification of the causes of waste within one or more manufacturing processes and recommendations for actions to eliminate the waste
• Development of standard work processes to implement and sustain identified improvement opportunities

Skills

MS Office

Analytical problem solving

Oral and written communication

Education

Sophomore year in Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Business, Food Science, Dairy Science or Ag Management/Science

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Hilmar Cheese Company offers a 10-week paid internship aimed at engineering, operations management, and manufacturing disciplines. Interns will engage in real projects, dairy plant visits, and leadership conversations, gaining hands-on exposure to howHilmar creates wholesome dairy products and services that impact lives worldwide.

As an intern at our Hilmar, CA site, you’ll work on projects with employees, learn from senior leaders, and explore career paths within a fast-growing company.