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Position Title: Plant - Grand Island - Environmental Engineering Intern - Summer 2025
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Position Location: Grand Island
Grade
Requisition ID: 34784
Environmental Engineering Internship.
About The Role.
As an Environmental Engineer Intern at our Grand Island plant, you will play a crucial role in supporting our industrial environmental program monitoring and compliance. In this role you will work to improve the process in which the plant manages compliance with the international standard for environmental impact.
This role will involve reviewing and digitizing documentation and performing a gap analysis to ensure compliance with ISO standards. Additionally, you will help perform audits, conduct wastewater testing, and support in the development and scoping of capital projects for fiscal year 26. This includes writing proposals and making submissions to engineering and finance for capital funding.
Location: This position is based at our Grand Island plant in Grand Island, NE, and requires on-site presence Monday through Friday, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
This internship offers multiple opportunities for full-time employment post-graduation, such as Reliability Engineer and or the Production Management Trainee program, a leadership development program designed to create future leaders at McCain.
Accountabilities
You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team dedicated to maintaining and improving our Grand Island plant's operations. Our team is committed to ensuring the highest standards of quality and safety. You will work closely with experienced engineers and contractors, gaining valuable hands-on experience in project management and process improvement.
About McCain (standard Across Job Postings).
At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain Experience (standard Across All Job Postings).
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: $23.00 - $26.00 USD hourly
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Due to the duration of this role, you will not be eligible for traditional benefits through our programs. McCain's early careers programming offers a multitude of learning experiences aimed at advancing your career in the future.
McCain Foods is an equal-opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company, we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Employee Privacy Policy
Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: NA Appetizer Manufacturing
Department: Grand Island Production
Location(s): US - United States of America : Nebraska : Grand Island || US - United States of America : Nebraska : Lincoln || US - United States of America : Nebraska : Omaha
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Position Location: Grand Island
Grade
Requisition ID: 34784
Environmental Engineering Internship.
About The Role.
As an Environmental Engineer Intern at our Grand Island plant, you will play a crucial role in supporting our industrial environmental program monitoring and compliance. In this role you will work to improve the process in which the plant manages compliance with the international standard for environmental impact.
This role will involve reviewing and digitizing documentation and performing a gap analysis to ensure compliance with ISO standards. Additionally, you will help perform audits, conduct wastewater testing, and support in the development and scoping of capital projects for fiscal year 26. This includes writing proposals and making submissions to engineering and finance for capital funding.
Location: This position is based at our Grand Island plant in Grand Island, NE, and requires on-site presence Monday through Friday, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
This internship offers multiple opportunities for full-time employment post-graduation, such as Reliability Engineer and or the Production Management Trainee program, a leadership development program designed to create future leaders at McCain.
Accountabilities
- Assist with ISO 14001 documentation review and digitization.
- Perform audits and wastewater testing.
- Support the development and scoping of capital projects.
- Write and submit REA forms for capital funding.
- Gain exposure to project management in an industrial setting.
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program in Engineering.
- Strong understanding of environmental management principles.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with team members.
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills.
- Familiarity with ISO 14001 standards is a plus.
- Proficiency in project management.
- Strong technical skills related to environmental engineering.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team dedicated to maintaining and improving our Grand Island plant's operations. Our team is committed to ensuring the highest standards of quality and safety. You will work closely with experienced engineers and contractors, gaining valuable hands-on experience in project management and process improvement.
About McCain (standard Across Job Postings).
At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!
Leadership Principles.
Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.
We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.
We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.
We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.
We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.
The McCain Experience (standard Across All Job Postings).
We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.
Compensation Package: $23.00 - $26.00 USD hourly
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Due to the duration of this role, you will not be eligible for traditional benefits through our programs. McCain's early careers programming offers a multitude of learning experiences aimed at advancing your career in the future.
McCain Foods is an equal-opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company, we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Employee Privacy Policy
Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: NA Appetizer Manufacturing
Department: Grand Island Production
Location(s): US - United States of America : Nebraska : Grand Island || US - United States of America : Nebraska : Lincoln || US - United States of America : Nebraska : Omaha
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Salary : $23 - $26
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