Intern - Engineering at Hilmar in Dodge City, KS

Summary: Hilmar Cheese Company is committed to innovation and sustainability, producing a variety of nutritious dairy products. As an intern at their Dodge City site, you'll work on projects alongside employees, gaining insight into the manufacturing processes and contributing to cost-effective methods in dairy production. Responsibilities: - Finding the optimum, most cost-effective methods of manufacturing dairy products - Sampling, data collection and analysis - Creating proposals to reduce operating costs, process capacity constraints, product losses, and product quality variation - Working with Plant controls systems, including PLC’s and Wonderware SCADA, medium and low voltage electrical systems - 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 Required Qualifications: - Completion of Sophomore year at a college or university and working towards a degree in Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Manufacturing or related - 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 Required Skills: Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Manufacturing Important Skills: MS Office, Analytical problem-solving Nice-to-Have Skills: Communication skills Benefits: 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!