Food Safety Microbiology Intern

Nestlé • konolfingen, canton of bern • Posted June 11, 2026

About the Role

Position Summary

As a Food Safety Microbiology Intern , you will contribute to experimental design, method development, and validation activities supporting food safety and process innovation. Your work will span lab protocols, microbial behavior studies, and thermal inactivation testing.

A Day in the Life of a Food Safety Microbiology Intern

Support R&D experiments and protocols for method development, validation, and technical assistance

  • Assist in developing lab procedures for process and product validation
  • Help define and verify surrogate strain testing procedures
  • Investigate qualification of new surrogates for novel process technologies
  • Contribute to refining validation tools and protocols
  • Help create training materials

    • Study bacterial growth and nitrate-to-nitrite reduction in non-dairy solutions

  • Assess effect of non-dairy matrix on b...