Feed Manufacturing: 2025 Summer Internship

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Job Title: Feed Manufacturing: 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: Manufacturing/Production
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: POSITION SUMMARY:

Opportunity to work in and be part of a large and expanding regional feed mill. This position will allow the candidate to receive hands on experience and the opportunity to apply critical thinking skills and recommend changes to current procedures. This person will have the opportunity to work in different animal species feed mills and a soy processing plant.

The ideal candidate would have an interest in areas such as feed manufacturing, agricultural business and animal nutrition.

In this internship you will operate the manual and computer automated systems required to receive ingredients, mix feed through hand adds, batching and pelleting and potentially engage in the operation of certain equipment. In addition to feed manufacturing this internship would provide the opportunity to perform inventory management, appropriate maintenance and repair on production related equipment as well as housekeeping activities. Interns are responsible for compliance with all company policies, local, state and federal policies, laws and regulations.

Who are we:

We're a growing company in an essential sector - agriculture!
We provide our customers with poultry, swine, and dairy feeds, performance ingredient solutions, conventional and specialty eggs, grain, fertilizer, and allied services in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
We've grown steadily since 1944 from a single location to ten feed milling locations in two states.
Over 450 team members now call The Wenger Group home.
We provide ample room for career growth and advancement.
Additional information can be found at our web site: https://www.thewengergroup.com

What will you do:

Milling Operations

Develop knowledge in animal nutrition and how ingredients interact with milling and grinding process through formulation to produced defined feed types
Learn grain testing procedures such as DON testing; dockage; moisture, bushel weight and foreign material
Perform the function of "hand-adds," the manual addition of feed ingredients and accurate recording of medication and vitamin usage.
Clean and perform routine housekeeping of the mill.
Perform general mechanical duties.
Control and monitor feed production through the computer center; Routing and Batching.
Learn pellet mill operation.
Effectively operate grinding equipment.
Receive daily shipments of grain and ingredients by truck & rail.

Ingredient and Inventory Management

Maintain bag inventories, stacked and orderly.
Monitor and keep accurate ingredient/grain inventories.
Participate in periodic bulk inventories.

Navigate, use and understand applicable feed manufacturing software.
Monitor usage reports and operational records as needed.
Perform other duties as determined by supervision.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Working toward a degree in agriculture or manufacturing.
Accumulated solid foundation of general work experience.
Knowledge of feed manufacturing equipment operation and maintenance preferred.

Ability to operate various types of machinery and heavy equipment preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Ability to work both with close supervision and independently
Ability to understand and follow Food Safety Standards - FSMA and SQF, Federal and State regulations