Northeastern University R&D Engineer Co-op- Northeastern Students Graduating in 2027/2028 ONLY

Your first step towards an amazing career in Research and Development (R&D) at Procter and Gamble (P&G) starts with applying to this co-op. Within an R&D co-op, you’ll be actively involved in creating, reimagining and launching new innovations which improve our consumers lives… all around the world.

The duration of our co-ops range from 12-24 weeks within the fiscal year. As a co-op, you'll receive a co-op allowance. At P&G, Intern/Co-Op sessions are considered temporary employment, with a predicted ending point. No full-time employment commitments are made.

As a company, P&G believes that ‘innovation is our lifeblood’. As such, we invest to ensure that our products best serve the current and future needs of our more than 5 billion consumers worldwide across our 65 iconic, trusted brands.

From Day 1, you’ll be equipped with powerful innovation tools, you’ll be encouraged to dive into the innovation process, and you’ll be tasked to advance real needs for our business. To enable your success, you’ll collaborate with dedicated technologists and mentors to strengthen your skills and develop new areas of mastery. The environments you’ll work in are creative workspaces where new insights thrive and where your technical mastery is recognized and rewarded. Ultimately, our investment in you is equally an investment in the development of our future R&D talent and in advancing our lofty innovation goals.

What will I do? Our co-op’s are constantly learning, growing in service of improving how our products perform. In this role, you will find new ways to innovate, develop and manufacture consumer products. Since we’re a highly collaborative company, you will have the opportunity to work with some of the best and brightest technical and commercial partners.

We strive to match your skills, qualifications, and interests with a role that works best for you and have a number of areas in R&D where you could work as a co-op, including:

• Products Research: Deeply understand our consumers and their needs in order to advise product design parameters for new or improved products.
• Product Formulation & Design: Translates the consumer’s needs into the development of fabulous finished-products which use the best available technologies/chemicals/materials.
• Packaging & Device Development: Creates and improves packages and devices that delight consumers and retailers. Packaging and Device technologists own the development of packages of superior function and premium design. In addition to ensuring the product functions well once the consumer has brought it home, we place a premium in ensuring that our packages and devices are responsibly developed with sustainability in mind.
• Process Development & Pilot Plant Operations: Translates ideas, concepts, and technologies into the design and scale-up of commercially feasible, powerful, chemical and mechanical manufacturing processes.
• Material Development: Start by developing 'new to the world' raw material technologies so we can meet our customer's needs with the highest quality, best performing materials.
• Modeling and Simulation (M&S): M&S development is a powerful capability which increasingly underpins the work across all our R&D functions. Our M&S experts are developing new to the world mathematical models which speed the pace and impact of our innovations.
• Data Science: Here, we would want you to communicate sophisticated data or algorithms into simple conclusions that will empower others to drive action based on the insights you derive. As a Data Scientist, you will transform the business to enable better decision-making through the use of advanced analytics.
• Blades & Metals Process Innovation: Deliver groundbreaking blade edge innovation through mastery of process, product, and equipment.