Packaging Internship

Location: Tampa, FL Required Education: 4-year Degree in process Base Pay: $20/hr. Required Experience: N/A Bonus: N/A Required Travel: Up to 50% Employee Type: Hourly (32-40 hrs./week) Relocation Covered: Relocation is not provided.

Description

Packaging Lab Technician Tampa, FL Refresco, one of the world’s largest beverage manufacturers, is planning to hire a current Packaging Science or Packaging Engineering student to manage projects at our Packaging Lab in Tampa, FL.  The 12-week employment period will take place after the end of the spring semester, and will conclude before the start of the fall semester. The ideal candidate will have completed at least two years of studies, including some packaging coursework. The Packaging Lab Technician will be based in our Tampa manufacturing facility, and must provide his/her own transportation.  During the employment period, Refresco will provide assistance with housing arrangements.

Job Duties

Among other projects, the Packaging Lab Technician will support Refresco North America’s Engineering Group with the following: ·         Manage and execute a variety of projects in our packaging lab: o    Benchmark testing of existing packaging o    Performance testing of new packaging and potential packaging concepts o    Perform quality verification of packaging samples from our manufacturing facilities ·         Support new on-site packaging qualifications (up to 25% travel to Refresco facilities in the US, vendor production sites and/or a third party lab may be required) ·         Support collection and entry of packaging specifications        Interested?       Send updated resume to Dr. Bruce Welt bwelt@ufl.edu  – Please do these two things: Subject line of email “Refresco 2019 Internship”  Resume filename (NOT “resume.docx”) – “LastNameFirstName_UFPKG_Resume_2019.docx or pdf”