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Internship Dates: Full Time for approximately 12 weeks (May - August). Position may extend through expected graduation date.
As a Operations Production Scheduler Intern, you will gain knowledge and understanding of the business through hands on activities, coaching, and projects. A few learning opportunities include:
- Responsibility for maintaining accurate production schedules based on sales orders and estimates, management, and utilization of raw materials, and reporting production data.
- Communicating and providing accurate reports to customers at their discretion.
- Maintaining product specification database for production support.
- Maintaining a point of contact between production and sales and communicate any changes.
- Development, training, and execution of best practices of e-Purchasing, e-Commerce, SCM, CMMS, MRO, BPO, Consignment programs, and Supply Chain Integration Strategies.
- Purchasing industrial equipment, utilities, plant packaging materials, and chemicals.
- Assisting with establishing annual leasing programs and contracts at the facility level. Will work directly with Corporate Director of Purchasing on corporate strategic sourcing national account/agreement programs.
- Assisting and monitoring in inventories.
- NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
Internship Dates: Full Time for approximately 12 weeks (May - August). Position may extend through expected graduation date.
As a Logistics Intern, you will gain knowledge and understanding of the business through hands on activities, coaching, and projects. A few learning opportunities include:
- Identifying and supporting the implementation of cost reduction, network optimization, and process improvement opportunities.
- Monitoring KPI’s and provide solutions for continuous improvement.
- Responding to customer and operational needs by answering e-mails, phone calls, tracking shipments, and recovering shipments to service our customers
- Researching and minimizing claims
- Understand how we interact cross-functionally w/in the company as a shipper, private fleet, and a broker.
- Learn and function w/in E2Open TMS system.
- NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
Location: Will vary depending on internship
Internship Dates: Full Time for approximately 12 weeks (May - August)
As an Environmental Health & Safety Intern, you will: Gain knowledge and understanding of the business through hands on activities, coaching, and projects. A few learning opportunities include:
- Conducting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Assessments, authoring job hazard analysis, and ensure compliance of respiratory/fall protection.
- Facilitating Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) orientations for new and existing employees, ensuring training(s) are current.
- Performing weekly EHS reporting and injury follow-ups.
- Leading with a high level of interpersonal tactfulness by verbalizing the needs of complex information such as Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) profiles.
- Supporting and working alongside management on critical projects while fostering a culture of continuous learning as you bring fresh ideas to the table.
- Working cross-functionally with strategic partners internally and externally to present data, while compelling a convincing message, encouraging buy in, and tracking the tasks to the plant’s accomplishments.
- Managing special projects (as needed) throughout the summer; researching and presenting findings verbally and written in an aesthetically appealing way.
- NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
Internship Dates: Full Time for approximately 12 weeks (May - August). Position may extend through expected graduation date.
As a Quality Assurance/Food Safety Intern, you will gain knowledge and understanding of the business through hands on activities, coaching, and projects. A few learning opportunities include:
- Monitoring employees and plant procedures according to the SQF code and the Active Food Security and Defense surveillance inside the facility and its operations.
- Monitoring intervention validation studies, sanitary operations, and animal welfare.
- Maintaining daily records of integrity of finished product leaving the facility: ground beef sampling, leaker checks, HACCP temperature checks, metal detector/x-ray checks, finished product weight checks, tare checks, and specification checks.
- Checking to ensure all critical control points are functioning as they should.
- Assist QA personnel and production with 3rd party audit preparations.
- Communicating with Line Leads and Supervisors if product does not meet specifications.
- Learning, understanding, and working to maintain the plant’s humane handling, safety, and quality assurance expectations.
- Recommending ways to improve the quality assurance program at the production facility.
- Working alongside supervisors and USDA employees to solve contamination problems if they occur.
- NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
Location: Will vary depending on internship position
Internship Dates: Full Time for approximately 12 weeks (May – August)
The Plant Operations Internship is a hands-on internship that is heavily engaged in day-to-day production activities manufacturing millions of pounds of beef on an annual basis. You will work with experienced employees to learn all aspects of either Harvest (Barn, Hide-On, Hide-Off, and Variety Meats) or Fabrication (Boning and Packaging) while developing managerial based skills. A few learning opportunities include:
- Working alongside supervisors and employees in various departments to learn and understand daily production operations.
- Identifying trends and making recommends improving plant processes and operations.
- Partnering with management to develop and implement actions that protect company assets and profitability or set policies and procedures.
- Developing management skills while leading and motivating others.
- Interpreting, applying, and/or enforcing company policies, programs, rules, regulations, and safety rules in support of departmental and corporate goals for safety, quality, and production.
- Active involvement in employee safety, food quality, and humane handling to ensure successful operations.
- Completing projects assigned by your mentor.
- NOTE: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
Location: Will vary depending on internship position
Internship Dates: Full Time for approximately 12 weeks (May – August)
The Plant Operations Internship is a hands-on internship that is heavily engaged in day-to-day production activities manufacturing millions of pounds of beef on an annual basis. You will work with experienced employees to learn all aspects of either Harvest (Barn, Hide-On, Hide-Off, and Variety Meats) or Fabrication (Boning and Packaging) while developing managerial based skills. A few learning opportunities include:
- Working alongside supervisors and employees in various departments to learn and understand daily production operations.
- Identifying trends and making recommends improving plant processes and operations.
- Partnering with management to develop and implement actions that protect company assets and profitability or set policies and procedures.
- Developing management skills while leading and motivating others.
- Interpreting, applying, and/or enforcing company policies, programs, rules, regulations, and safety rules in support of departmental and corporate goals for safety, quality, and production.
- Active involvement in employee safety, food quality, and humane handling to ensure successful operations.
- Completing projects assigned by your mentor.
- NOTE: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.