Intern - Chemical Engineering

At Hilmar Cheese Company we improve lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Our state-of-the-art production facilities convert an abundance of locally sourced high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein and lactose. We offer a 10-week paid, skill-enriching, innovation-generating summer advantage for interns to work on projects alongside our employees.

Requirements

• 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
• Working with Plant controls systems, including PLC’s and Wonderware SCADA, medium and low voltage electrical systems
• 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

Benefits

• Gain professional work experience in an area related to your degree
• Work in a positive, well-balanced environment
• Learn about the industry from all levels of management
• Potential opportunity, upon graduation, for full-time employment with a successful, fast-growing company!