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The National Food Lab Internship

Company Description

The National Food Lab (the NFL), a Eurofins company, is America’’s most comprehensive food contract research consultancy, spanning 170 team members and 5 sites. The NFL creates new ideas and product for the food, beverage, dietary supplement, pet food, personal and home care industries on a daily basis. We shepherd products from concept to harvest, offering product formulation, process development and pilot plant services, consumer insights and acceptance testing, sensory science, shelf life assessments and product life cycle and specification management.  We are food scientists, culinary artists, chemical engineers, market researchers and statisticians dedicated to delivering safe, effective and most of all fun nutrition to the world.

Job Description

  • Prepare ingredients and products for routine consumer and/or sensory tests
  • Inventory incoming client products, label products and containers, place samples in appropriate storage locations
  • Help serve samples during sensory and/or consumer tests

Qualifications

  • Energy
  • Crisp, incisive oral and written communication
  • Rapidly learns new software systems
  • Attention to detail
  • Is adept at using Microsoft Office Suite, which may include proficiency with Excel and other database applications
  • One or more years of study and current status in a program in food or life sciences, manufacturing, or quality from an accredited US university
  • Term of Internship: Summer 2022. Potential for extension or renewal of term based on performance and availability.