The Hershey Company's R&D team is looking for interns to evaluate new technologies and ingredients for improving current processes and products, and to provide new product opportunities through research, concept development, and scaling up to commercialization.
Requirements
- Capability to work with Gen AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Engineers should have experience on modelling
- Comfortable with laboratory and pilot plant equipment
- Demonstrated problem solving and evaluation capabilities
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Computer literate (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Strong interest in hands-on work and applying technical rigor and scientific principles and practices
Responsibilities
- Provide support to research projects or portions of larger projects which provide innovative new products and/or product/process improvements in R&D.
- Perform prototyping and development from benchtop to pilot plant to full manufacturing scale.
- Test ideas through experimentation, applying technical rigor and scientific principles, and practices.
- Determine next steps through problem solving while understanding the business impact.
- Assist team in accomplishing project tasks.
- Provide input for technical feasibility for new product concepts.
- Partner with Supply Chain to provide technical support to drive quality and value improvement in products and processes.
Other
- Majors: Food Science, Material Sciences, and Engineering (Food Processing and Chemical)
- Pursuing at minimum an undergraduate Bachelor's degree (preferably junior or senior).
- Minimum GPA: 3.0
- Prior internships with related experience are highly valued
- Highly motivated
