Intern Product Development Chocolate Milk

Internship in Product Development – Chocolate Milk

Department Overview

This internship will be in the department Product Development Ambient and Concentrated where we develop long life dairy drinks and evaporated milks. During the internship the main objectives are to gain practical experience in an R&D organization, and to develop personal skills and competences. The activities will be focusing on the processing and analyzing of chocolate milk. We would like to build knowledge on recipe requirements and processing on pilot plant scale and the impact on product quality. Learnings will be used for upscaling to factory.

What We Ask

• An enthusiastic, independent, driven student that easily communicates with others
• Good foundation of food technology and food ingredients, basic knowledge of dairy technology
• Student with EU nationality or enrolled at a Dutch university
• Final years of relevant study, e.g. Food Technology (BSc Applied Sciences HBO, University).
• Fluent in English, both oral and written
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Ambition to pursue a future career in product development or research

What We Offer

We offer an interesting and challenging internship position, providing you the opportunity to develop yourself in your work field. You can count on sufficient professional supervision and a reasonable internship allowance.

Job Description

What you will do

• The internship activities will focus on processing and analyzing chocolate drink, and support to various projects.
• Important aspects you will work on are:
  • Setting up and assisting in trials of different scale to test different processing conditions and recipes.
  • Following the physical stability of the products during shelf-life and using/improving analytical methods (rheology, particle size measurements, microscopy etc.).
  • Discussing stability issues, effect of different ingredients, recipes and processes, sensorial aspects with internal and external experts.
  • Reporting all the results.

Team Details

For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with, and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them, it's not just about what we do, but who we are.

We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina, we own our careers and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.

Contact

Berredina Cornelia Oosterom
BerredinaCornelia.Oosterom@frieslandcampina.com