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Position Title: Plover - Health & Safety Intern - Summer 2025
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Position Location: Plover Appetizer
Grade: Scale 05_NONU
Requisition ID: 33108
Production Health & Safety Internship.
About The Role.
We are looking for a Health & Safety Intern to join us for the summer of 2025, starting in May 2025. This position will be based at our Plover Appetizer location in central Wisconsin.
The intern will support different aspects of the manufacturing process at McCain Foods while working in one of the core functions and contributing to that team’s goals and objectives. The Intern is expected to gain a broad understanding of manufacturing processes and tools. The intern will work with a team to identify and track safety initiatives and concerns and collaborate with different departments as required.
You will learn about food manufacturing operations, strategic projects and initiatives, internal and external communications, teamwork, working with a purpose, and careers with McCain!
Accountabilities
The intern will be a part of the dynamic safety team at the Plover Appetizer Plant. The intern will be a part of a supportive team that will encourage you to be and do your best and will provide a safe and flexible working environment that promotes work/life balance. The team will share the opportunity to be part of meaningful work and projects and to be part of our student community to connect with students across North America.
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 well-being 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: Student & Graduates; General & Administration
Division: NA Appetizer Manufacturing
Department: Infinity Manufacturing-Safety
Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Plover || US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Fort Atkinson || US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Rice Lake || US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Wisconsin Rapids
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Position Location: Plover Appetizer
Grade: Scale 05_NONU
Requisition ID: 33108
Production Health & Safety Internship.
About The Role.
We are looking for a Health & Safety Intern to join us for the summer of 2025, starting in May 2025. This position will be based at our Plover Appetizer location in central Wisconsin.
The intern will support different aspects of the manufacturing process at McCain Foods while working in one of the core functions and contributing to that team’s goals and objectives. The Intern is expected to gain a broad understanding of manufacturing processes and tools. The intern will work with a team to identify and track safety initiatives and concerns and collaborate with different departments as required.
You will learn about food manufacturing operations, strategic projects and initiatives, internal and external communications, teamwork, working with a purpose, and careers with McCain!
Accountabilities
- Collaborate with employees from various departments to conduct risk assessments, recommend proper controls, and update job hazard analyses.
- Assist in audits/inspections of machinery and equipment to ensure compliance with corporate policies and regulations.
- Assist in daily site safety and contractor audits during shutdown.
- Actively participate in monthly safety committee meetings and follow up on action items.
- Support the plant “Lock Out - Tag Out” program.
- Support department supervisors with incident investigation and follow-up on action items.
- Assist in tracking and monitoring plant health and safety metrics and communicating trends to the management team.
- Maintain health and safety records to ensure adherence to corporate policies and/or regulatory requirements.
- Pursuing an associate’s or bachelor’s degree program related to the Safety profession.
- Understand the basic principles of OSHA regulations.
- Ability to support projects in administrative and manufacturing settings while in a fast-paced environment.
- Creative thinking, problem-solving, organization, and planning skills.
- Comfort working in a manufacturing environment.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to work and relate with people at all levels of the organization.
- Strong team player
The intern will be a part of the dynamic safety team at the Plover Appetizer Plant. The intern will be a part of a supportive team that will encourage you to be and do your best and will provide a safe and flexible working environment that promotes work/life balance. The team will share the opportunity to be part of meaningful work and projects and to be part of our student community to connect with students across North America.
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 well-being 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: Student & Graduates; General & Administration
Division: NA Appetizer Manufacturing
Department: Infinity Manufacturing-Safety
Location(s): US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Plover || US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Fort Atkinson || US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Rice Lake || US - United States of America : Wisconsin : Wisconsin Rapids
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Salary : $23 - $26
