Title: Food Safety & Quality Intern Location: Brownsville, Wisconsin, USA Posted Date: 2026-08-12T14:29:08.142Z Job Category:
Job Description: Job Summary: The Food Safety & Quality Internship offers a hands-on opportunity for a college student to gain experience in food safety, quality systems, and dairy manufacturing. Past interns have completed projects such as environmental swab mapping and sample result comparison programs. In this role, you will support quality documentation, food safety initiatives, audits, investigations, and continuous improvement projects while collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will also gain valuable in-plant experience and develop a strong understanding of food safety regulations, quality programs, and dairy production processes. What you will be doing:
Assist with updating and maintaining Quality Policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and other quality documentation.
Partner with plant quality teams to ensure the documentation database remains accurate and up to date.
Support Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) initiatives through research and program development activities.
Help identify and implement programs that strengthen food safety and quality systems.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support quality and food safety objectives across the organization.
Gain exposure to multiple areas of Grande’s Quality department and learn how they work together.
Participate in a two-week, hands-on experience at Grande’s cheese and whey manufacturing plants to observe quality and food safety processes.
Assist with product testing and quality evaluations related to positive hold and release initiatives, including sample coordination, data collection, and results analysis.
This internship provides a unique opportunity to see how food safety and quality programs support day-to-day operations in a manufacturing environment. You'll build meaningful industry experience, expand your professional network, and gain practical insights that can help prepare you for a successful career in food science, safety, quality, food manufacturing, and much more. Unique Benefits of our Internship Program:
You will get the farm to fork experience during this program. You will experience a farm tour, facility tours, and experience the end user products.
Networking events where you will meet executives and community leaders.
Internship group outings and events.
Volunteer opportunities within the community.
Personal development events and training.
While you don’t have to love pizza to work here…it sure does help! What you need to be considered for the role:
Student in Junior or Senior status pursuing a bachelor's degree in Food Science or Quality Assurance or other related field required.
Preferred:
Participative involvement in campus organizations, non-class related volunteer involvement, off-campus employment, and demonstrated leadership preferred.
FSMA PCQI training preferred
HACCP Certified
Effective analytical and communication skills
Basic statistics knowledge desirable
Why Grande? With more than 80 years of crafting “The Finest Italian Cheeses Money Can Buy”, Grande is a leader in the industry! Whether partnering with independent pizzerias from coast-to-coast to ensure they’re delivering the very best pizza to their customers or assisting our food manufacturing partners in delivering specialty whey ingredient solutions, our commitment to quality can’t be matched. While Grande’s reputation of excellence in the market is important, we believe our commitment to our workplace and community culture is of equal merit – our Associates come first at Grande. To complement our industry-leading benefits, Grande puts an emphasis on your career growth opportunities, while always promoting a positive work/life balance and supporting the communities in which we live and work. If you want to learn more about our company – what we do and how we go about it – or learn more about our beautiful, state-of-the-art corporate headquarters, visit
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About Grande Cheese Company
Grande Cheese Company manufactures fine Italian cheeses. Founded in 1941, the company operates as a privately held business. It maintains multiple facilities across Wisconsin, including locations in Lomira, Brownsville, and Fond du Lac. The company employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people.
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