For nearly a century, The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. In 2022 and 2024, Jel Sert was certified as a Great Place to Work. We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as an R & D Lab Intern. If you are looking for a Great Place to Work, with a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you.
The Lab Intern will be responsibile for assisting in the day to day duties of lab maintenance, formulation preparation and adjustments, process improvement, stability studies, sensory panels.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist with bench top formulation preparation/adjustments and lab maintenance
- Partake in special projects, stability studies and sensory panels
- Assist with internal stability studies and sensory panels
- Process improvement, plant trials, data entry - lab testing and sensory results
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS
An individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility successfully.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
- Ideal candidate will have a minimum of a High School Diploma with 1 year of chemistry or 1 year of college education working toward a degree within the Sciences, Food Science preferred.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Manufacturing experience within the food and beverage industry is preferred.
- Average Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook skills are required
- Basic knowledge of scientific methods, terminology and bench top chemistry.
- Ability to gather and analyze data in order to compile information and prepare reports.
- Organized, detail oriented, neat and able to meet deadlines.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Self-starter who can work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Ability to function independently in a multi-task environment, as well as part of a team.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally form position to position.
- Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
- Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive Motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
- Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs on an as needed basis
- Ability to climb stairs in order to get to areas of the facility to perform job responsibilities.
- Pushing and pulling of carts on an as needed basis.
- Ability to use senses; taste, touch, smell and sight.
- Close visual acuity to perform activities: preparing and analyzing data and figures, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection of materials, operating laboratory devices, etc.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Mainly lab environment with some office and plant work. In the lab environment, one will work, from time to time, with hazardous chemicals with supplied safety equipment and is subject to atmospheric conditions such as dust.
ACCOUNTABILITIES CHECKLIST
Planning
Check the quality and timeliness of work.
Maintain a professional and organized work environment.
FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES
Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.
IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS
This job assists with formulation preparation, plant operation process improvements, cost savings initiatives and shelf life verification in order to insure a quality finished product.