Job Description
Quality Lab Intern - Summer 2027
The Quality Lab Intern will be responsible for assisting in monitoring quality control, analytical testing, microbiological testing, environmental testing, and coordinating laboratory paperwork.
Duties / Responsibilities:
- Perform microbiological and chemical testing on bulk cheese, ingredients, finished product, equipment, and the plant environment.
- Participate in split sampling/proficiency testing.
- Perform environmental swabbing as instructed.
- Maintain lab/quality supply inventory.
- Maintain and ensure the accuracy of lab/quality equipment calibration.
- Develop, maintain, and distribute Certificates of Analysis.
- Assist with fat, moisture, salt, and pH analyses on bulk cheese and finished products.
- Perform quality melts on different cheese blends and finished products.
- Investigate customer complaints and bulk complaints.
- Assist the Quality Lab Technician in maintaining laboratory and quality-related SOPs.
- Consistent and reliable attendance to maintain adequate staffing levels and meet customer commitments is required.
What You Can Offer:
- Current enrollment in an undergraduate degree program in Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology, or a related field.
- Previous experience in a food manufacturing or laboratory setting is desired.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good decision-making skills regarding quality standards.
- Knowledge of GMP requirements.
- Knowledge or willingness to learn the AOAC-approved methods for cheese testing.
- Knowledge or willingness to learn the food standard methods.
- Good organizational skills and analytical ability.
What Masters Gallery Foods Can Offer You
We're a company built on many values, among them are passion, integrity, and people, which means if you join Masters Gallery, you'll join a team brought together by enthusiasm, trust, and dedication. Beyond our commitment to offering exceptional products and customer service, Masters Gallery is committed to career development, flexibility, and fun at work.
To uphold those values, Masters Gallery Foods provides:
- Opportunities to give back to the community (drives, activities, matched donations, and more)
- Green initiatives
- Training and development programs
- Opportunities to give feedback and suggestions in a judgement-free zone
- Numerous fun activities throughout the year (potlucks, ugly sweater contests, and more)
Masters Gallery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Plymouth, WI |
| Job Type | Part-time |
| Industry | Food and Beverage Production |
| Company Size | 1,000 to 1,499 employees |
| Website | https://www.mastersgalleryfoods.com/ |
Benefits
Parking, Performance Bonus, Prescription Drug Coverage, Professional Development, 401K, Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Tuition Reimbursement, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
About Company
Masters Gallery Foods is a family-owned company operating two multi-acre campuses, a leading national cheese supplier, maintaining one of the largest privately held cheese inventories in the country and offering a full line of retail and foodservice cheese products. Our state-of-the-art production facilities boasts of numerous packaging lines to serve private label, retail and foodservice customers around the world. Our size, product quality and customer service are what makes us unique-and are what keeps our customers coming back again and again.
We believe that our people are the heart and soul of our company and living proof that a culture focused on building relationships and collaboration is the key to success. Founder Butch Gentine Jr., made a commitment to the community and established a culture of treating employees like family. Now more than 50 years and over 11,000 employees later, Butch’s son, Jeff Gentine, builds on his father’s commitment as we continue to invest in people and care about what happens to them both inside and outside our walls.
The RIGHT PEOPLE delivering the RIGHT CHEESE is simply what Masters Gallery Foods is about.
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