PURIS · 2 months ago
Reliability Intern
Dawson, MN
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$20/hr - $20/hr
Start in 2026 SummerPURIS is dedicated to cultivating a better food system and making a positive impact by transforming high-quality, USA-made ingredients into essential components for everyday products. The Reliability Intern's role is to drive equipment reliability, utilizing work order history and reliability technology to optimize asset capability and address root causes of equipment issues.
AgricultureAgTechFarmingFood and BeverageManufacturingOrganicOrganic FoodPlant-Based FoodsSnack Food
Responsibilities
Follow all Safety, Food Safety, PURIS, and other established policies, processes, procedures, standards, and practices while achieving defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and meeting PURIS and plant goals and objectives
Lead a Defect Elimination Project
Prioritize Lubrication Improvements and Oversee Implementation
Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) for significant, complex, and repetitive reliability issues
Preventative Maintenance (PM) Task Optimizations/Updates
Participate in multi-disciplined reliability improvement teams
Ensure appropriate analysis of data and timely corrective action
Trend and analyze data to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities
Work with Technical Disciplines, Operations and Maintenance to identify opportunities to improve capacity utilization by revising or replacing equipment or changing operating, engineering and/or maintenance practices or procedures
Support standardization across PURIS Plants
Qualification
Required
2+ years of education in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
Self-starter with ability to deliver results while managing multiple tasks and adjusting within rapidly changing environment
Experience with design, engineering, and understanding manuals and drawings
Strong interpersonal, influencing, facilitation and presentation skills; able to communicate and influence effectively with all levels of management and plant personnel
Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Benefits
Career Growth: PURIS offers a dynamic work environment where you can develop your skills and advance your career.
Innovative Environment: You'll have the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art engineering and cutting-edge technology.
Strong Values: We uphold integrity and a global vision for the future.
Commitment to Sustainability: At PURIS, we are deeply dedicated to creating a sustainable future.
Company
PURIS
Puris cultivates plant-based foods and ingredients from organic and non-GMO sources.
Founded in 1985
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$137.5MKey Investors
Cargill
2020-02-28Series Unknown· $25M
2019-08-28Series Unknown· $75M
2018-06-19Series D· $12.5M
Leadership Team
Tyler Lorenz
CEO, PURIS Proteins
Richard O'Hara
Cheif Operations Officer
Recent News
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