Quality Assurance Intern (m/f/d)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As a Quality Assurance Intern (m/f/d), you will directly report to our Quality Assurance Manager, and you will join our Quality Assurance Department in Vernier (Switzerland) for minimum 6 months.

In this paid internship, you will work in a stimulating and collaborative environment where your proactivity will be valued. You will also have the chance to develop competencies in cosmetic GMPs and broaden your understanding of Quality Systems.

In this exciting role you will:

• Redesign existing GMP risk assessments, and continue working on process risks that could affect Quality (with a focus on the distillation area).

• Review shopfloor practices against GMP requirements: identify any gaps, raise alerts, and propose improvements.

• Maintain the current dashboard of Quality Indicators in Power BI, automate data collection, and improve the content to match operational needs (using SAP, Microsoft tools).

• Help coordinate the cleaning validation program and propose actions in case of deviations or failures.

• Occasionally participate in the daily tasks of the Quality Assurance Manager (e.g., deviation and complaint management, audit preparation and participation).

• Help create short training videos illustrating GMP rules.

Your success profile includes:

• Pursuing university studies (a convention de stage/university agreement is mandatory) in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry.

• Competency in Data Sciences required.

• Genuine interest in learning on the shopfloor.

• French language mandatory, knowledge of written English language.

• A curious and rigorous mindset.

• Comfortable with computer tools (Microsoft Office, SAP), and handling data collection and analysis (statistics).

Our Benefits:

• Company shop

• Sport and leisure clubs

• Staff restaurant

• Corporate Mobility Plan

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

We value the different perspectives that come from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Everyone - regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances - is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.