Position Snapshot
Location: Orbe, Switzerland
Act. Rate: Full-Time
Type of contract: Internship, 6 months
Start date: February 2025
What we offer at Nestlé
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Opportunities to have an impact and contribute to your team’s success!
Endless learning opportunities and enriching experiences!
Strong mentorship for your professional growth.
Professional network and route to entry level position.
Position Summary
The Nestlé Product Technology Centre Coffee (NPTC Coffee) is the leading R&D organization that discovers, develops, and deploys coffee and beverage products and technologies for in-home and out-of-home consumption. It consists of units in Konolfingen (CH), Marysville (USA), Orbe (CH), and Singapore and provides new products and processes to all Nestlé markets worldwide.
Our mission – to delight the consumer wherever, whenever, however by delivering moments of genuine pleasure and indulgence - drives the need for us to attract, select and develop the right people for the right jobs throughout the value chain of our business.
As an R&D Sustainability Engineering Intern , you will be part of the Site Engineering team working on activities to support our sustainability commitments. Our Orbe R&D site has two targets:
- Improve the CO2 footprint of the site.
- Validate technologies & concepts to support our factories in reducing their CO2 footprint.
We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.
A Day in the Life of a R&D Sustainability Engineering Intern
- Build a mapping of consumption for the chilled water network for the site (Process and Building).
- Consolidate the current capacity for the existing chilled water compressors system.
- Suggest an optimization strategy to balance/prioritize the current supply network.
- Make a detailed study about alternative solutions for chiller compressors with energy recovery loop.
- Develop a comprehensive design with scope, technologies & costs while contacting external suppliers.
- Support the maintenance team to drive & improve the utilities dashboard to follow chilled water consumptions.
- Build one pager with new opportunities to improve our sustainability roadmap.
- Be part of the Orbe sustainability team as well as the R&D sustainability network.
- Support the sustainability champion by preparing documents, presentations & supports for meetings with the management.
- Create communications to increase sustainability awareness among Orbe employees.
What will make you successful
- Currently studying a Master’s degree in Engineering (Energetic, Mechanical or Electrical preferred).
- Autonomy, good communication skills, and team spirit.
- Good technical skills on utility management (generation, distribution, consumption).
- Utilities distribution design and management.
- Fluent in French and English.
At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives, and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the lives of the people we touch every single day.
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