What are the responsibilities and job description for the R&D Technical Services Intern - Temporary - 1st Shift position at Kayem Foods, Inc. Career Center?
Summary: The R&D Technical Services Intern will support the Research & Development team in product testing, quality assurance, and product development initiatives. This position will assist in conducting shelf-life testing, maintaining product specifications, performing internal lab tests, and helping with product trials and culinary presentations.
The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, organized, and adaptable, with strong analytical and communication skills. A flexible schedule may occasionally be required to support production run testing or other activities tied to plant operations.
Tasks & responsibilities:
1) Shelf-life testing
- External laboratories testing: Coordinate product testing at external laboratories – prepare documentation, provide and coordinate samples pick up, obtain & file lab reports
- Internal sensory shelf-life testing: Maintain testing calendar, schedule sensory evaluations, prepare and serve the samples, document results
- Prepare combined micro & sensory shelf-life results into a composite spreadsheet
2) Specifications
- Draft product specifications and maintain a specifications database
- Internal QA lab testing
- Submit testing requests to QA lab when lab resources are available
- Use the Fat analyzer in the lab to perform tests when lab resources are not available
4) Product development assistance
- Run small scale testing on the production floor
- Assist R&D Process manager in large scale testing
- Print test labels
- Retrieve samples from product trials for evaluation and further testing
- Culinary assistance
- Organize product evaluations
- Product presentation to customers
- Internal product presentations (e.g. Lunch & Learn)