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Location: Lansing, MI
Work type: Onsite

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Location: Lansing, MI

Come Be Part Of A Mission that Matters!

From inside the farm gate to our dinner plates, Neogen protects the world’s food supply. Through a variety of animal healthcare products, to food safety solutions for dangerous bacteria, allergens, toxins, drug residues and much more, Neogen is there — and you can be too.

Manufacturing Intern – Product Performance & Launch Support

Type: Onsite

This is more than just an internship. It’s an opportunity to turn scientific curiosity into real-world innovation and make a meaningful impact.

At Neogen, we believe in developing the next generation of innovative thinkers, problem-solvers, and industry leaders. Our internship program offers meaningful, hands-on experience where you'll have the opportunity to apply your classroom knowledge, collaborate with experienced professionals, and contribute to projects that support our global operations.

The Opportunity

As a Manufacturing Intern – Product Performance & Launch Support, you'll gain valuable, real-world experience in manufacturing operations, scientific analysis, product performance evaluation, and cross-functional collaboration while supporting the launch of Neogen's Clean-Trace product.

This is an exciting opportunity to see how science, data, and manufacturing come together to bring innovative products to market. Working alongside experienced Manufacturing professionals and cross-functional teams, you'll play an active role in evaluating product performance, analyzing data, investigating variability, and developing insights that support a successful product launch.

From designing structured performance evaluations and conducting data analysis to troubleshooting technical challenges and communicating findings, your contributions will help strengthen product understanding, improve operational decision-making, and support launch readiness.

Throughout your internship, you'll receive hands-on mentorship and guidance while developing the technical, analytical, and professional skills needed to succeed in manufacturing, laboratory science, quality, or product development.

What You'll Do

Support an Exciting Product Launch: Collaborate with Manufacturing and cross-functional teams to support Neogen's Clean-Trace launch, gaining firsthand experience in the technical and operational activities involved in bringing a product to market.

Turn Project Goals into Action: Partner with your mentor and key stakeholders to review launch requirements, existing performance data, approved testing methods, and applicable safety and quality standards to develop a structured project plan.

Explore Product Performance: Help develop and execute an approved performance-characterization plan, evaluating key factors such as product consistency, variability, measurement methods, and performance trends.

Collect and Analyze Meaningful Data: Gather, organize, validate, and interpret experimental and manufacturing data to identify patterns, trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.

Apply Scientific Problem-Solving: Support structured troubleshooting activities by investigating performance questions, documenting hypotheses, evaluating potential causes, and identifying recommended follow-up actions.

Collaborate Across Teams: Work with professionals in Manufacturing and other technical functions to coordinate testing, observations, and project activities while minimizing disruption to ongoing operations.

Support Quality and Safety Excellence: Follow established safety procedures, approved testing methods, documentation practices, and quality expectations while promptly communicating potential concerns to appropriate team members.

Translate Findings into Solutions: Develop clear technical summaries, troubleshooting resources, and practical recommendations that help launch teams understand performance results and address emerging challenges.

Communicate Progress and Results: Share project updates, present findings, and document key conclusions and recommendations for Manufacturing leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

What You'll Gain

At Neogen, we believe the best learning happens through experience. Throughout your internship, you'll have the opportunity to:

Gain hands-on experience supporting a real-world product launch within an active manufacturing environment.

Learn how scientific testing, product characterization, and manufacturing performance evaluations contribute to product readiness and quality.

Develop practical experience planning and executing structured experiments and performance assessments.

Strengthen your ability to collect, organize, analyze, and interpret technical and scientific data.

Apply statistical thinking and data visualization techniques to identify trends, variability, and potential performance concerns.

Explore structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis approaches used to investigate technical challenges.

Gain exposure to manufacturing quality systems, safety requirements, change control, and disciplined technical documentation.

Understand how Manufacturing and other technical teams collaborate to support product launches and operational improvements.

Build confidence in presenting technical findings, communicating recommendations, and translating complex data into actionable insights.

Work alongside experienced professionals who can provide mentorship, coaching, and insight into potential career paths in manufacturing, quality, and applied science.

Your Final Project: At the conclusion of your internship, you'll have the opportunity to present your accomplishments to Manufacturing leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, highlighting your performance-characterization work, key findings, technical recommendations, and contributions to the Clean-Trace launch.