Packaging Engineering Intern

Title: Packaging Engineering Intern
Location: Richland, WA
About Lamb Weston
We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.
We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.
We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!
Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.
Job Description Summary
Participate in a 2-semester internship program built around your career goals and hands-on projects that impact the organization. As part of the Lamb Weston University Recruiting Internship Program, Interns work towards completing a Capstone project and are assigned a mentor who will guide and evaluate performance. Whether you are interested in Agricultural Science, Data Science, Finance, Supply Chain, IT, Manufacturing, Food Science, Marketing, or Engineering, our highly selective summer intern program has projects that will help you build the next stage in your career.
- Gain real-world working experience through dynamic projects assigned by your mentor and assigned department under a paid internship
- Network and learn from executives, department leaders, high performers, and fellow interns across the business
- Receive guidance and feedback from your assigned mentor throughout the program
- Professional development events providing tools that will help after the internship and after graduation
Job Description
This position will work directly with the Lamb Weston R&D Packaging Innovation group in our Richland, WA Technical Center facility in support of one or several assigned packaging development projects. Areas of support may include retail, international, or food service/chain business units.
Typical duties may include but are not limited to:

• Work with R&D product developers to develop innovative new packaging to meet the requirements of new products or product delivery systems.
• Support development and maintenance of packaging specification system.
• Supports lab testing and creates OPL (One Point Lessons) to improve testing capabilities.
• Support packaging engineers and suppliers in the development of lower-cost or more operationally efficient packaging.
• Participate in sustainability initiatives
• Provides research and development for new packaging innovation and reports out to the department.
• Other duties as assigned

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled or a recent graduate of a packaging, packaging science, engineering, material science, or related field
• Juniors, Seniors, or Master's degree students preferred but also accepting recent graduates
• Demonstrated strengths in relationship building, problem solving and conflict management
• Continuous improvement mindset and methodology
• Excellent verbal and oral communication skills.
• Innovative thinker/problem solver.
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong computer competency; experience with MS suite of products desired
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment
• Valid driver's license and ability to meet Lamb Weston's driving record standards preferred

Industry-Competitive Benefits
Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness - Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Job Requisition ID: Req-233454
Time Type: Full time
Anticipated Close Date: 12/16/2023
In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable hourly estimate for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $22.00
Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law