Beef Sustainability Intern

*Must be actively pursuing a MS or PhD degree*

*Paid with $2,000 relocation allowance offered if needed. Two all-expenses paid trips to company headquarters (Madison WI area) for North American Internship program engagement

Reports To: Ellen Lai, Beef Sustainability Intern on the ABS Beef Product Development Team 

Position Location: DeForest, WI 

Genus (Parent company to ABS Global, PIC and R&D/IntelliGen) is a global FTSE 250 company, headquartered in the UK and listed on the London Stock Exchange. With revenues of around £500 million, Genus has a presence in over 70 countries, with a global workforce of approximately 3,200 employees. One of the best performing stocks on the London Stock Exchange, the Company’s market capitalization is around £2 billion. We are a worldwide leader in porcine and bovine animal genetics, partneringwith farmers to transform how we nourish the world – a mission that is important to a sustainable future. 

Each generation of animals is selected based ona number ofdesired traits, including greater health, fertility, productivity or feed efficiency. With superior animal genetics, Genus helps its customers in the dairy, beef and porcine supply chains around the world produce offspring with improved robustness, superior production efficiency and greater sustainability. Genus’s vision of“pioneeringanimalgenetic improvement to help nourish the world”is supported by its core values to be customer-centric, results-driven, pioneering, people-focused and responsible. 

For more information on our student program, please visit- www.startingatgenus.com  

The intern will assist our efforts to quantify the environmental impact of our genetics on beef production systems using data-driven analytics. The intern will learn how we as a genetics company think of sustainability and what role data plays in advancing sustainability. Based on this knowledge, the intern will build analytical pipelines that transform raw data into sustainability metrics. This intern will work alongside our beef product development team to support sustainability-related data aggregation and analysis. 

• Digitize paper records 
• Use various statistical and analytic tools to reproducibly query, clean, and summarize data 

• Cleaned data will be used to inform calculations of the environmental footprint of genetic improvement from ABS’s proprietary genetic program 

• • Current MS or PhD student in Animal Science, Dairy Science, Quantitative Genetics, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or related field, required 
  • Strong analytical skills, familiarity with statistical packages (R, SQL, bash, python, etc.), and experience with scripting or programming tools required 
  • Direct agricultural experience (plant or animal) is a positive but not required attribute 
  • Strong interest in data analysis, sustainable livestock production, and animal genetics and breeding preferred 
  • Live and display the Genus values at all times in their day-to-day activities. 
  • Maintain professional verbal and written communications with co-workers, internal and external customers, and vendors at all times. 
  • Be flexible with respect to job responsibilities and consistently strive to be an effective team member. 
  • Strive to advance your skills and display a willingness to accept future development. 
  • Actively participate in company training opportunities to further develop skills applicable to the team. 
  • Gain an understanding of the company’s business and the team’s role within the company. 

*Please make sure you fill out the required questions, describing your motivation for applying to this position, what you hope to gain from this internship, and what you can contribute to our team.