R&D Product Management Intern
Location: Fall River, MA, United States
Date Posted: Mar 17, 2025
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Description
Job Summary
Blount’s Internship Program aims to grow students from our community in a way that is mutually beneficial by providing experiential learning opportunities and connecting concepts learned in the classroom to real-world applications in order to contribute to the professional readiness of tomorrow’s workforce. Interns can expect timely feedback, accessible supervisors, bi-weekly meetings with the internship program lead, assistance with career readiness, and networking opportunities. In the event of an absence, position will be filled by trained personnel.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Commercialization: Assist the Project Management and Commercialization teams with new product launches and existing product updates by coordinating project deliverables and entering product information into controlled databases.
- Regulatory: Work with our Regulatory Specialist to review new items, create food labels, perform nutritional analysis via computer software, and assist with compliance activities for our certifications and our customers.
- Product Development: Assist with developing new products by researching trends, writing formulations, creating bench samples, and conducting tastings.
- Food Technology: Help coordinate shelf-life studies and sensory analyses; conduct benchtop experiments to test ingredient functionality.
- Packaging Technology: Research, sample, and test various types of food packaging with our Packaging Engineer.
- Other responsibilities w/ similar skill and work conditions as assigned.
Responsibilities for Food Safety
- Responsible for completing required paperwork accurately and honestly as applicable.
- Must adhere to all corporate GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices), established SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and all Food and Employee Safety policies.
- Must adhere to all Allergen control programs and procedures as applicable.
- Responsible for reporting suspicious packages, activities, and individuals.
- If monitoring CCPs (Critical Control Points), must be trained in HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) and adhere to approved HACCP plan(s).
Required Skills/Abilities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office
- Eagerness and willingness to learn
- Ability to work and problem solve
- Maintain a positive attitude to continued learning and support of the overall business
- The ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally in English as it pertains to individual position.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to interpret graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office software, competent with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Education and/or Experience
- Degree (B.A. or B.S.) candidate from College or University or related experience; or equivalent combination of both education and experience.
- Junior or senior standing in a degree-granting college, with major in nutritional sciences, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, business, management, or similar
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- This position requires the ability to travel, pre-employment and screening of Motor Vehicle Record every two years and personal automobile insurance coverage in accordance with the Blount Fine Foods Employee Handbook.
Physical Requirements
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
