*Nutrition Research Intern: 2025 Summer Internship


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Job Title: *Nutrition Research Intern: 2025 Summer Internship
Location: Lancaster, PA, USA

Company: The Wenger Group
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Nutritionist/Formulator
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Who are we:

We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania. We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement.

We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment. With over 850 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector - agriculture!

Learn more here: https://www.thewengergroup.com

What your day looks like:

Position Summary

The Wenger Group internships offer students a unique exposure to many facets of technology and its relationship with agriculture. The Wenger Group tailors the internship to meet both the student and company objectives for a mutually beneficial experience. The Nutrition Research Intern will provide support to research team on feed and bird handling of research trails. Travel to various mills and research farms as appropriate to the objective of the study.

Primary Responsibilities
  • Ensure adherence to Wenger policies, methods, and disciplines.
  • Gather the collection of data as determined by the Chief Nutrition Officer
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs and an interest in continued knowledge of technology as it evolves
  • Ability to work alone and as part of a large research team
  • At least one year of related research experience preferred
  • Assistant with the experiments alone without close guidance or supervision
  • Excellent communication skills in verbal and written formats
  • You have a keen eye for detail and organization
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule including both days and nights performing research or data entry
  • Desire to perform accurate and ethical research to achieve results for the study
  • Ability to negotiate and openness to learning new ways of performing research
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
  • Intermediate Word/Excel knowledge to manage docs with track changes, formatting, Word Forms, protected documents/sheets
  • Attention to detail to review approved docs for format, records content, consistency of numbering, consistency of titles within content and training sections, completion of revision history
  • Attention to detail in managing template contents to accurately maintain the origin, review, and version dates as well as updates to document owners and approvers. Ability to maintain a high quality of work with attention to detail while ensuring personal productivity and efficiency
  • Strong and effective interpersonal skills that foster open upward and downward communication built on mutual respect
  • Self-starter; ability to drive things to closure
  • Able to work well both independently and in a group setting
  • Ability to multi-task in effectively executing responsibilities
  • Proficient written communication skills in business correspondence and other required documents; can present numerical data effectively
  • Strong oral communication skills: speaks clearly and persuasively; listens effectively; obtains clarification; conveys information and ideas in understandable terms at all levels of the organization and through proper channels; participates in meetings; responds well to questions
  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints
  • Takes ownership and accountability for mistakes, correct and learn from them and have the ability to progress forward
  • Strong planning and organizing skills: using time efficiently; adapting to changes in the work environment; managing competing demands and changing approaches or method to best fit the situation
  • Commitment to supporting a safe culture
  • Demonstrates Wenger's Core Values

Physical Requirements
  • Must be able to spend extensive time using a computer and phone to meet daily job requirements.
  • Ability to lift up to 60 lbs. repeatedly and up to 75 lbs. on occasion.
  • Ability to climb ladders and work in high places
  • Ability to work in dusty conditions.
  • Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time

Position Requirements:
  • Pursuing a bachelor's or advanced degree in Animal Science, Agriculture or related field required
  • Experience working with databases and systems, including inputting and extracting data
  • Exposure to our experience in feed mill and/or livestock (poultry, swine, dairy) production is preferred
  • Understands basic business process to read content for general understanding and grammar and make minor grammatical corrections



In addition to our more traditional benefits, we also offer great perks and numerous resources for professional development and team building:
  • Promotional opportunities
  • Rewards and recognition programs
  • Robust onboarding and training program
  • Employee Discount Programs (Perks at Work)
  • Employee referral program
  • Encouraging and collaborative culture

What our benefits are:
  • Paid Time Off, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Parental Leave, etc.
  • Carebridge Employee Assistance Program

For all full-time members:
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Medical Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
  • Life Insurance/Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Pet Insurance

Each team member has the potential to earn a yearly bonus based on the achievement of company goals.

The Wenger Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type as protected by federal, state, or local laws.This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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Job Post Date: 02/18/25
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