Intern - Manufacturing (Dodge City, KS - 3 Positions Available)

A Typical Day

At Hilmar Cheese Company we offer a 10-week paid, skill-enriching, innovation-generating summer advantage. Our interns innovate, collaborate and deliver. We’re counting on our interns to bring fresh ideas and own exciting projects in the works.

As an intern at our Hilmar, CA site, you’ll be exposed to real life business situations and will work on projects alongside our employees. Your summer with Hilmar Cheese will include dairy visits, community projects, and even a chance to pick the brain of our senior leaders. You’ll have the opportunity to gain insight on 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!

Job Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities and Potential Projects are as follows:

• 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

What You Will Need

• 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

What Will Put You Ahead

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The role has frequent occasions that require prolonged walking or standing, lifting/ carrying/handling moderate weight objects on a regular basis. Is required to wear PPE and have a regular presence in manufacturing and warehouse environments in both temperature controlled and uncontrolled locations. Must frequently interact with people verbally. Specific details of the essential functions of the position is available in the Job Safety Analysis, made available on request.

*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*