Job Title
Food Science Intern
Job Location
Owensboro, Kentucky
Job Overview
• Our Future Leaders Programme will ignite the leader in you.
• This unique programme is designed to develop Unilever's Future Leaders (UFL) by providing challenging and purposeful opportunities that accelerate their readiness to take on business leadership roles.
• Unilever offers vast and exciting career paths within Research & Development (R&D).
• Creating new innovations and technologies, and enhancing our existing brand portfolio - it's all yours in Unilever's R&D function.
• Bring your imagination and technical expertise to help develop superior products in an ever-evolving consumer marketplace.
Compensation
• DOE (Depends on Experience)
Responsibilities
• Successful participation and interaction on project teams.
• Assist with the preparation of a broad range of prototypes using a variety of resources to bring product concepts to life.
• Assist with the assessment of technical feasibility from a product perspective and identification of product related issues such as unique ingredients as well as the effect of process on product quality attributes.
• Identification of formulation & ingredients, shelf life, potential suppliers, and lead times for commercialization.
• Development of specifications for new raw materials and finished products.
• Participation in pilot plant trials making adjustments as required to products.
• Management of product transition from development into the supply chain.
• Support of supply chain improvement projects including troubleshooting activities where product knowledge is essential.
Requirements
• Undergrad with Junior status based on skills and coursework.
• Coursework in Food Science.
• A deep knowledge of and passion for product design and new product development.
• Interest in emerging trends and understanding of consumers' expectations.
• Ability to "execute" a project and analyze research data/studies.
• Ability to "deliver" data to support insights, techniques and technologies for improvements.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet project deadlines.
• Success interaction on "cross functional" teams.
We're excited for you to apply!
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