Job Description

About the Job: Summer Advantage Internship at Hilmar Cheese Company

At Hilmar Cheese Company, we are dedicated to improving lives around the world through wholesome dairy products. Since our founding in 1984, we have maintained a strong commitment to innovation and sustainability. Our state-of-the-art production facilities efficiently convert an abundance of locally sourced, high-quality milk into a variety of nutritious cheeses, whey protein, and lactose. These ingredients contribute to a wide array of retail and food service products, from sliced and shredded cheeses to protein supplements and infant formula. We pride ourselves on being a trusted partner to premier food and beverage brands in over fifty countries, helping them bring their vision to reality.

Throughout decades of success and growth, we have remained steadfast to our mission and values, which unite our people and guide all our actions.

A Typical Day: Hilmar Cheese Company Summer Advantage Internship

At Hilmar Cheese Company, we offer a 10-week paid, skill-enriching, innovation-generating summer advantage internship. Our interns are expected to innovate, collaborate, and deliver. We count on our interns to bring fresh ideas and take ownership of exciting ongoing projects.

As an intern at our Hilmar, CA site, you will be exposed to real-life business situations and will work on projects alongside our experienced employees. Your summer with Hilmar Cheese will be comprehensive, including dairy visits, community projects, and even a chance to pick the brain of our senior leaders. You will gain invaluable insight into how we create wholesome dairy products, systems, and services that improve lives around the world.

Benefits Of a Hilmar Cheese Company Internship

• 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!

Position 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.

Minimum Requirements

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

Physical Demands & Work Environment

Physical Demands (Required)

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to:

• 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.
• Employees must be physically capable of working in any of the job tasks within their respective area.
• Required to work at heights and in fairly small areas.
• Engage in pushing, pulling, reaching, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, handling and grasping, twisting/turning, and repetitive bending.

Work Environment (Duties)

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to the following:

• 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 depending on time of year.

The working surface is primarily concrete. Where standing is required, there are rubber mats which are one-half inch thick.

Food safety is a companywide responsibility and each employee must know their role in the manufacture and distribution of safe, wholesome, and high-quality products.

This description is a general statement and does not include other duties as assigned.

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/EEO. We participate in E-Verify.

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Salary Range: USD $19.76 – $23.08 per hour