Culinary Intern

Are you ready to take your skills to the next level and make a real impact?

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture, and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.​

The role is based in New Century, KS (onsite). Be part of a dynamic, diverse and passionate team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.​

Where You’ll Make a Difference

As a Culinary Applications intern, you’ll gain hands-on experience working on food innovation projects that include meat and prepared meals.  You’ll learn how ingredients interact, assist with testing and trials, and contribute to real product development in a lab and pilot plant setting.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Assist application specialists on a selected technical project from experimental design to completion, which includes testing on equipment, analytical procedures, equipment set-up and preparation of materials.

• This role will work on the testing application of various IFF Food Ingredients.

• Able to follow the instructions and operate small scale equipment to produce trial samples.

• With the training provided on the job, operate various laboratory equipment to test the samples, collect, organize, and analyze the data, and present the trial reports.

• Maintain a safe and clean work environment in their work area.

• Present the final internship project report to the application team.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Currently enrolled in Bachelors / Masters / Ph. D Degree, specifically studying Food Science, Meat Science, or a related field.

• Good time management skills and a team player

• Good communication, verbal and written

• Basic computer skills (Word / Excel / Power point etc.,)

• Ability to lift 50 pounds

• Ready to gain experience in a pilot plant setting, including working with meat products and operating in cold and wet conditions typical of food manufacturing

How Would You Stand Out?

• 3.0 GPA or Higher

• Outstanding problem-solving, analytical and interpersonal skills.

• Strong work ethic and the ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams to deliver concrete project deliverables in a timely manner.

Why Choose Us?

• Interns will gain hands-on experience in industrial microbiology, fermentation, and molecular biology while contributing to real-world food innovation challenges.

• Competitive Pay

• Flexible Schedule

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more