Global Agricultural - Variety Development Intern

Position Title: Global Agricultural - Variety Development Intern

Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time

Position Location: Florenceville Main

Grade: Grade 01

Requisition ID: 35531

Global Agricultural Variety Development Internship.

About the role.

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

The Global Agricultural Team is seeking an intern to join us from May to August 2025. This internship will support the global variety development research project focused on optimizing the magnesium nutrient management for the King Russet variety under irrigated conditions. King Russet is a high-yielding variety exclusive to McCain, showing significant potential as a new cultivar. Communication with the breeder has indicated that King Russet has high magnesium (Mg) requirements. This internship will work on a trial that aims to understand these Mg needs and develop a management strategy for Mg application through both foliar and granular methods.

This position is based in our Florenceville office and research fields and will work in the office five days a week.

Accountabilities:
Evaluate the performance of King Russet under different Mg nutrient regimes, focusing on yield, specific gravity, size distribution, tuber set, defects, and disease, all under irrigated conditions.
Collaborate with the team to maintain and manage the trial, performing frequent observations to capture crop development and any occurring events and variations.
Analyze results in correlation with the trial variables, drawing conclusions and making recommendations.

Qualifications:
Currently pursuing a bachelor's or post-graduate degree in Agriculture.
Experience working in a research capacity within an agricultural setting.

Skills:
Eagerness to learn.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting abilities.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, along with strong team collaboration capabilities.

About the Team:
The Global Agriculture Team is dispersed across various McCain locations worldwide. This position is based in our Florenceville office and research fields.

About McCain.

At McCain, we're feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That's why we're dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Leadership Principles.

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we're better together.

Hybrid

Compensation Package: $23.00 - $26.00 CAD hourly

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Due to the duration of this role, you will not be eligible for traditional benefits through our programs. McCain's early careers programming offers a multitude of learning experiences aimed at advancing your career in the future.

McCain Foods is an equal-opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Agriculture
Division: Global Agriculture
Department: Global Agriculture Variety Development
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Fredericton

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)