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Unilever Canada

  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

Factory Engineering Co-op null

Rexdale-Kipling

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Explore exciting opportunities at Unilever to ignite growth, drive innovation, and shape tomorrow's success together

Opportunity details

Opportunity Type
Internship, Clerkship or Placement

Application dates

Minimum requirements

Accepting International Applications
No
Qualifications Accepted
E
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Materials Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering
Engineering & Mathematics (all other)

Hiring criteria

Entry Pathway

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Working rights

Canada

  • Canadian Citizen
  • Canadian Permanent Resident
  • Canadian Student Visa
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About Unilever

Established over 100 years ago, Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. They manufacture, market, and distribute a wide range of products including food, personal care products, beverages, cleaning agents, water purifiers, and other consumer products.

Your role

Background & purpose of the Job:

Be a part of the 170K global employees that make Unilever one of the best companies in the world to work for! Forbes has listed Unilever as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” and Way up-rated Unilever’s internship program in the top 20. One of their 400 brands is used daily by more than 2.5 billion people globally who are looking for outstanding talent to join their factory team.

Who you are & what you'll do:

  • Experience working in a Manufacturing Environment.
  • Maintain a high degree of accuracy and professionalism.
  • Asset in Project Management and coordination activities – ordering technical equipment, coordinating shop drawings and transmittals to clients, creating building material lists for projects, coordinating trade contractors on-site, and maintaining project documentation.

Training & development

At Unilever, the people bring passion and purpose to their organization and grow through continuous learning and development. This makes Unilever the perfect place to start your career. They prepare their people to adapt and thrive in changing times. They have a lot of internal training resources in place, from online courses to one-to-one mentoring.

Benefits

 Benefits may include:

  • Gain hands-on industry experience.
  • Job training.
  • Paid time off plans.
  • Flexible work hours.
  • Cafeteria.

Career progression

Unilever offers students the opportunity to progress in their careers with many opportunities for development within the organization. Post-completion of this Internship, you may be invited to join Unilever in a full-time role. Also, the internship experience & skills you will gain in this role will be significant for your further career journey and will help you in securing new job opportunities.

Work-life Balance

At Unilever, they believe that the more they can match people’s working patterns with their circumstances and aspirations, the happier and more productive they’ll be. The work-life balance is good with flexible working hours designed to meet the business's needs while providing flexibility to all its employees. They encourage all employees to take regular leave to ensure a healthy work-life balance.

Culture & vibe

Unilever is very collaborative, which makes it an ideal place to work. The team comprises intelligent and ambitious people who are always willing to help a colleague succeed. Furthermore, the company believes building a sustainable business is important to make the world an inclusive and equitable place.

About you

What you’ll need to succeed:

  • The ideal candidate would be working towards a university-level engineering degree in mechanical engineering, Mechatronics, or B-Tech Automation.
  • The role requires supporting the engineering department in various Capital, Category, and Digitalization projects.
  • Moreover, the candidate would work closely with cross-functional departments and plant staff in creating and deploying various projects.
  • This is an on-site role at a Manufacturing facility, candidate needs to hold Safety and Quality at the utmost importance.

Skills:

  • Be extremely organized and communicate effectively with customers, peers, and reporting managers.
  • AutoCAD and Microsoft Office experience is a plus. 
  • Commissioning, training, and documentation of projects. 
  • Strong analytic skills and data-centric mindset. 
  • Strong verbal and oral communication, and ability to make presentations and reports. 
  • Ability to work individually and within a team environment.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

  • careers.unilever.com
  • youtube.com

Hiring criteria

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Entry Pathway
Degree or Certificate
Minimum Level of Study
Bachelor or higher
Study Field
E
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Materials Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering
Engineering & Mathematics (all other)

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

country
eligibility

Canada

Canada

Canadian Citizen

Canadian Permanent Resident

Canadian Student Visa