Engineering Intern (Summer 2025)
Danone
At Danone, we believe that every time we eat or drink, we vote for the world we want. As a leading food and beverage company, we make healthy, sustainably-produced foods and beverages that nourish people’s lives. Some of our brands includeDannon, Activia, Horizon Organic, International Delight, Silk, Oikos, So Delicious Dairy Free, Stok, Two Good, Vega, and Wallaby Organic. And as the largest Certified B Corporation® in the world, we are committed to redefining success in business to ensure that through our brands we create real benefits for people, our communities, and the planet.
With headquarters in Broomfield, CO and White Plains, NY, Danone North America has more than 6,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada, and more than a dozen manufacturing facilities across North America. Our employees enjoy competitive pay and industry-leading benefits (including flexible (unlimited) time off and up to 26 weeks paid parental leave), and share a common mission and culture committed to both business results and social purpose. When you join Danone North America, you become part of a global team that is inspiring a healthier world through food.
Danone North America is looking for an Engineering Intern (Summer 2025) in Minster, Ohio.The primary responsibility of the Engineering Intern is to support the technical operations and projects of the Minster Engineering department.
Specific Job Duties & Tasks:
- Interact with plant teams (Utilities, Packaging, Processing, Quality, Finance and Management) Corporate Engineering, Sourcing & Supplier Development, R&D, Danone Engineering Worldwide and appropriate vendors, suppliers, contractors, operators and auditors.
- Investigate and recommend the application of equipment, automation systems and manufacturing technologies in the Utility, Processing, Filling and Packaging departments with requirements of personnel safety, food safety, energy and water conservation for the Minster, Ohio facility
- Conduct (sometimes lead) research, analysis, and improvement projects related to department goals
- Actively engage current workforce ( such as job shadowing) to effectively achieve project and department goals
- Track, drive and report actions to closure
- Manage small and medium scale capital projects to learn to deliver the business needs using sound project management knowledge and tools, and full cooperation of the manufacturing facility.
- Project involvement from concept to budget, justification, and design phase through planning, risk analysis, resource identification, implementation, commissioning and closing
- Prepare technical proposals for feasibility study of new concepts, launch of new products and improvement of current products
- Ensure that the business needs are well validated by a cross-section of the business and translated into equipment requirements for improving or expanding the plant operations (including new product launches and innovations) and making major repairs to systems buildings
- Write specifications and reference Global Danone Standards
- Present research findings and solution proposals to peers and plant leadership
- Act as a consultant to the maintenance department for solving technical problems
- Technical guidance and engineering support to consumer business units
- Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality is a must
- Perform other duties as assigned