Quality Assurance Intern

A little bit about us
Good Food, Good Life is the very essence of Nestlé. This philosophy can be traced back to our beginnings. The Nestlé Company was founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé, who developed the first milk-based baby formula. Today, over 150 years later, we are recognized as the world’s largest Food and Beverage Company employing around 280,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. Nestlé Canada has a wide variety of food, beverage and nutrition products to help you and your family live happier and healthier lives including: Gerber and Good Start, Nescafé, KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Delissio, Häagen-Daz, Boost, Purina, and Nestlé Waters. Nestlé Canada supports your personal growth with a people-focused culture and a flexible and diverse working environment. Our aim is to create a unique career experience for talented young professionals like you! Bringing our brands to life and making them as relevant for today’s consumers as they’ve always been takes vision, passion and an innovative mind-set. If you can bring that into the mix, we know the magic will happen.

Position Snapshot
Business areas: Nestlé Canada
Job title: Quality Assurance Intern
Location: North York ON

Position Summary
We are looking for a Quality Assurance Intern based at our North York Head Office for the months of May to August 2024. This role is a great opportunity to work on Quality activities for all Nestle Categories of products. You will be working daily with quality management professional and some cross-functional teams’ members to strengthen quality process to ensure compliance to Nestle Standards, CFIA and Health Canada regulations. The posting term is for 3 months with the possibility of extending to 8 months depending on performance and project delivery.

As a Quality Assurance Intern, you will be responsible for driving & sustaining successful change management through identifying opportunities to optimize product specification and quality release process while also developing the capabilities of the department colleagues and 3rd parties in Lean tools, processes, and thinking.

The key activities include the following:
-   Implementation of Quality Tools.
-   Evaluation of Power BI data.
-   Follow up of action plan and planned activities.
-   Training to 3rd parties on the available Digital Tools with proper coaching.
-   Support the VMHS team with daily activities as well as some specific tasks (i.e. update of bulk specifications, update list of disqualified products, etc.).
-   Upload and evaluation of documentation to ensure flawless product release execution.
-   Follow up of closure of consumer complaints investigation.

What will make you successful?
As the successful candidate, you will be the champion for the brand throughout the organisation so you will need to be passionate, tenacious, results focused and really enjoy working in a highly energetic and exciting environment.

You will also:
•   3rd or 4th year undergraduate student pursuing degree in Pharmacy & Biochemistry, Food & Nutrition, Food Science, Chemistry and Engineering (Food, Industrial, Chemical).
•   Maintaining a GPA of a minimum 3.0 and above is considered an asset.
•   Have strong communication, analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
•   Has knowledge about LEAN and TPM principles.
•   Self-motivated, proactive, results focused, agile, innovative, and intellectually curious.
•   Fast learner, and must be comfortable working within a dynamic, challenging environment.
•   Strong computer proficiency (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).

We have a friendly, supportive team with a coaching and mentoring environment. There are real opportunities for future development and progression – this really could be a move towards the exciting opportunity to drive strategy and build a Quality Assurance career with the leader in Food & Beverage.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Excellent training and development programs as well as opportunities to grow within the company.

We will be considering applicants as they apply, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

Nestlé is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. If you are selected to participate in the recruitment process, please inform Human Resources of any accommodations you may require. Nestlé will work with you in an effort to ensure that you are able to fully participate in the process.