Food Safety Quality Intern

Join us in Summer 2026 as a Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) intern in Minneapolis, MN! The FSQ Intern will support our Food Safety and Quality initiatives in training, shelf-life, and reporting initiatives. This role is ideal for students pursuing careers applicable to food and/or sensory science, animal/meat science, microbiology, or chemistry. The intern will gain hands-on experience in a professional setting, working on real-world projects that span a variety of areas of food safety and quality. To gain hands-on experience this intern will have the opportunity to travel to one or more of our plants and/or distribution centers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and/or Iowa during the summer internship. FSQ Intern ResponsibilitiesThe duties and responsibilities of this position shall consist of, but not be limited to, the following:Develop training content and facilitate training to build the behaviors, actions, and awareness needed to meet the high standards of our food safety and quality system Use existing internal procedures and external research to develop training contentCreate training content which could include presentations, procedures, hands-on activities, videos, and visual graphicsFilm and facilitate training, upload to training platform for future useEstablish and maintain processes to trend progress in food safety and quality performance against benchmarks Support electronic data reporting initiatives by developing and/or improving dashboards and reports for monitoring FSQ metricsDive into specific metrics to provide insight and analysis for continuous improvementWork on projects to simplify administrative time in collecting, sharing, and analyzing dataLead programs to measure and report sensory quality performance Test and evaluate products over shelf-lifeAnalyze shelf-life study results, develop reports, and provide shelf-life recommendationsAssist in organization of shelf-life study reports and strategy for future shelf-life study improvements in process and designComplete additional projects and participate in activities related to the intern experience at Jack Links Collaborate with FSQ on other projects in progress- this could include continuous improvement work, product testing, specification development, or electronic FSQ systems maintenanceSupport FSQ team resource intranet siteParticipate in intern events such onboarding, training, plant tours, and fun events