Quality Assurance/Food Safety Intern
Overview
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. Help prepare presentations on findings and recommendations.
- 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.
- 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.
Participate in data collection and analysis related to product quality and food safety metrics.
Assist in the development and implementation of quality assurance protocols and food safety standards
Assist in maintaining quality documentation and records.
- 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.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications (Required):
- Must have completed your Sophomore year at a credited College or University.
- Maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
- Have the desire and ability to work well both independently and cross functionally.
- Are willing to engage others through strong communication and leadership skills.
- Are an inquisitive individual that has a desire to gain knowledge through experience.
- Ability to perform all duties required in both office and manufacturing environments wearing proper PPE.
- Have reliable transportation to and from working location.