L'Oréal USA

Manufacturing Co-Op (12-month internship)

Division L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty

Location: Somerset, NJ

Reports To: Senior Manager, Quality Assurance

Who We Are: 

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. 

At L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty, our mission is to help everyone in their quest for healthy and beautiful skin. Our division is the world leader in dermo-cosmetics by adding health to beauty. Our brands portfolio includes CeraVe, La Roche-Possay, Vichy, SkinCeuticals offering a range of skincare and haircare products to respond to all expectations linked to beauty and health of the skin. 

What You Will Learn:

This co-op will play a key role in QA team to generate Annual product reports, support complaint investigations, and support validations of new equipment in fast paced manufacturing environment, with opportunities to lead process improvements in these critical areas. 

• Create Annual Product Reviews and improve workflows by implementing digital solutions for efficiency and compliance. 
• Assist with customer complaints, logging and investigations and identify opportunities to boost efficiency. 
• As needed, assist with equipment validations (Installation qualification, Operational qualification, Performance Qualification)
• Assist validations (clean in place and sanitize in place validations) for existing and new recipes, while identifying opportunities to streamline validation methodologies.
• Assist with SCOOP (capability studies /statistical sampling) validations and ACD testing/qualification.
• Creating E-CLAIRS(electronic cleaning logs) for manufacturing areas. 
• Participate in risk assessments.
• Assist with other QA functions as needed(Product Testing)

• Work with cross-functional teams to drive projects to completion in a timely manner.

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Candidates must be actively enrolled or have received a bachelor’s degree in engineering within the last 12 months OR must be actively enrolled or have graduated with a master's degree within the last 12 months. 

What’s In It For You:

• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• Learning & Development Opportunities for Career Progression (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs 

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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