Intern Operations Excellence (Fall 2025)
Hershey Co.
Posted Saturday, June 14, 2025
Posting ID: 125632
Memphis, TN
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Posted Date: Jun 13, 2025
Requisition Number: 125632
Location: Memphis, TN
Duration: Fall 2025
Operations Excellence Intern/Co-Op
This posting is for a position within The Hershey Company's Operations Excellence group located in Memphis, TN. The goal of this internship/co-op position is to provide an opportunity for students to gain real world experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Food processing industry and to help students develop professionally in a progressive manner with an increasing amount of responsibility. This position will give you an excellent opportunity to gain real world experience while working alongside Line Centric Teams to meet the Company goals pertaining to continuous improvement and Hershey Lean.
Responsibilities:
Typical Student assignments & responsibilities may include:
Must be an undergraduate student majoring in engineering at the sophomore level or higher.
Primary focus currently is recruiting for an intern to start working Fall term 2025. Preliminary recruiting for Spring and Summer 2026 terms is also underway. Please specify what term(s) you are available during the interview process.
Please be advised that The Hershey Company welcomes all applicants to internships. However, Hershey will not provide immigration-related support for these internships.
Hershey also will not provide immigration-related sponsorship (such as H-1B) for entry-level roles should you later apply for one of those roles in the future.
Requisition Number: 125632
Location: Memphis, TN
Duration: Fall 2025
Operations Excellence Intern/Co-Op
This posting is for a position within The Hershey Company's Operations Excellence group located in Memphis, TN. The goal of this internship/co-op position is to provide an opportunity for students to gain real world experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Food processing industry and to help students develop professionally in a progressive manner with an increasing amount of responsibility. This position will give you an excellent opportunity to gain real world experience while working alongside Line Centric Teams to meet the Company goals pertaining to continuous improvement and Hershey Lean.
Responsibilities:
Typical Student assignments & responsibilities may include:
- Recipe standardization across all equipment (remove old and ensure all recipes are identified correctly)
- 5S activities (Focus on Consumable item location and quantities, working with the PM pillar)
- RCO Implementation based on input from Process Leads
- CI Projects (specific projects based on timing of individual coming on board) Work with Process Leads on existing projects
- Work with operators to identify project opportunities on the lines (Go-Do's)
- Other items as needed.
Must be an undergraduate student majoring in engineering at the sophomore level or higher.
Primary focus currently is recruiting for an intern to start working Fall term 2025. Preliminary recruiting for Spring and Summer 2026 terms is also underway. Please specify what term(s) you are available during the interview process.
Please be advised that The Hershey Company welcomes all applicants to internships. However, Hershey will not provide immigration-related support for these internships.
Hershey also will not provide immigration-related sponsorship (such as H-1B) for entry-level roles should you later apply for one of those roles in the future.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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Lean Manufacturing
Continuous Improvement Process
Fast Moving Consumer Goods
