Brief Description
Unbox Your Potential: Our customers see us as the industry leader for trusted, high quality food service essentials and supply chain solutions – and our employees see the value in what they do each day. We offer a culture supported by integrity, growth, relationships, and excellence. We’re looking for a Packaging Engineering Intern – are you ready to explore what it is like to work with us?
The Packaging Engineering Intern will support the Packaging Engineering and Product Quality teams in the evaluation, testing, and documentation of foodservice packaging products. This internship is hands-on and data-driven, involving physical sample testing, specification review, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure packaging meets performance, quality, and operational requirements.
This Internship has a target start date in May and a target end date in August.
Work Location & Schedule:
This is a hybrid position that requires 3 days/week onsite in our Exton, PA location (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday). The work schedule for this position is Monday through Friday from 8:00am - 5:00pm.
How you will make an impact during this Internship:
• Support the integration and centralization of product and packaging specifications within SpecRight system, including loading, validating, and aligning specification data across systems to drive improved efficiency, visibility, and integrated operations.
• Uploading and auditing specifications, supporting linkage between PimeCore, S2K and other identified systems.
• Perform and document fit, closure, and visual inspections for samples
• Identify inconsistencies and flag issues proactively within large data sets
What you will learn from this Internship:
• Real world experience in packaging materials, quality testing, and supply chain collaboration.
• Develop technical proficiency in specification management platforms, ERP systems and packaging documentation workflows
• Strengthen analytical project management and cross functional collaboration skills
• Exposure to quality, engineering, operations and sourcing functions in a dynamic manufacturing, importing and distribution environment
Requirements
What you will need to qualify for ACR's Internship Program:
• Currently enrolled in a 4-year degree at an accredited college or university
• Authorized to work in the United States
• Availability to meet both the work location and work schedule requirements
What you will need to be successful in this Internship:
• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Packaging Engineering, Materials Science, or related degree track
• Currently a rising Junior or Senior
• Fundamental understanding of packaging materials (paperboard, corrugated, plastics, molded fiber)
• Must be comfortable working in a warehouse environment
• Ability to read and understand basic dimensions, drawings, and specifications
• Comfortable working in Excel (sorting data, basic formulas, organizing large datasets)
• Comfortable working with physical samples and lab testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks
Preferred experience:
• Prior internship, co-op, or project experience related to:
• Packaging design or testing
• Quality assurance or manufacturing
• Experience with any of the following software / tools:
• TOPS, CAPE, ArtoisCAD, SpecRight, ASANA, PLM Systems
Summary
Pre-Employment Verification
All employment offers are contingent upon a successful criminal background check.
EEO Statement
ACR is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
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