Agriculture Intern, Data Science

Title: Agriculture Intern, Data Science

               

Location: Kennewick, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Participate in a paid internship program built around your career goals and hands-on projects that impact the organization. As part of the Lamb Weston University Recruiting Internship Program, Interns work towards completing a Capstone project and are assigned a mentor who will guide and evaluate performance. Whether you are interested in Agricultural Science, Data Science, Finance, Supply Chain, IT, Manufacturing, Food Science, Marketing, or Engineering, our highly selective summer intern program has projects that will help you build the next stage in your career.

- Paid internship, May – August (actual dates may vary)
- Gain real-world working experience through dynamic projects assigned by your mentor and assigned department
- Network and learn from executives, department leaders, high performers, and fellow interns across the business
- Receive guidance and feedback from your assigned mentor throughout the program
- Professional development events providing tools that will help after the internship and after graduation

Job Description

The Ag Analytics Intern will be a contributing member of a team responsible for crop analytics across North America supporting critical decision-making related to the sourcing of billions of pounds of potatoes.

This intern is a resource to the Sr. Manager Ag Analytics and will help progress our crop analytics and reporting capabilities by building data visualizations, automating data pipelines, and improving predictive crop modeling. The intern will gain insight into numerous datasets used for crop analytics including weather data, input pricing, field sampling, potato quality, and yields. This internship offers the opportunity to gain experience with real-world applications of data science curriculum. The intern will be working in collaboration with other members across the North American Ag Services team.

Duties & Responsibilities include:

• Automating Data pipelines within our department’s various systems.

• Improve yield modeling training and execution through automated ETL process.

• Build API connections to relevant internal and external Ag datasets.

• Build Power BI dashboards.

• Import open-source satellite imagery.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Must be a current Junior, Senior, or Master’s student enrolled in a related program: Data Engineering, Computer Science, Business Analytics or related field

• Minimum GPA 3.0 preferred

• This is a full-time position with 8-hour shifts Monday-Friday, but a successful candidate may need to occasionally flex to other shifts (example: 2nd shift, night shift) as part of your capstone project

• Valid U.S. driver’s license and ability to meet the Lamb Weston Authorized Driver standards

• Experience with data modeling, automation, warehousing and building ETL pipelines

• Experience with AWS technologies – S3, Lambda, & Glue preferred.

• Experience with Power BI preferred.

• GCP and Azure equivalents such as Snowflake, Python and or any ETL Tools is a plus

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

               

Job Requisition ID: Req-256270

               

Time Type: Full time

               

Anticipated Close Date: 04/11/2025

               

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate’s work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable hourly estimate for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $22.00

               

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law