Internship QA
Working at What’s Cooking?. We’ll tell you all about it:
What’s Cooking? is a European fresh savoury food group headquartered in Belgium which commercialises in Europe and beyond a wide range of high-quality and innovative savoury cold cuts, snacking and ready meal food products (also known from Come a casa®), and related services.
“Day by day, we make sustainable food second nature by increasing the world’s appetite for tasty, convenient meals, crafted with care both for the people and the planet”.
Our customers and consumers are always on our hungry minds when preparing our food products, as is the well-being of our approximately 2,500 employees from our headquarter, 12 industrial sites in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and the UK, and 7 sales offices.
What’s Cooking Group (previously named Ter Beke) exists for 75 years, is listed as family company on Euronext Brussels since 1986 (EBR: WHATS) and realised a turnover of EUR 832 million in 2023.
For our site in Wijchen we are looking for a QA Intern (starting as from February 2025 or September 2025).
Your tasks as a QA Intern:
Given the various activities in this department, there is a lot to see and learn as a trainee. You will support our QA team with different kind of QA related tasks. Among this, you will be responsible for following up complaints, performing inspections, taking samples of products, environment and equipment, preparing internal audits, specification management, etc.
An internship always consists of min. 2 days working in this team (General QA Tasks) and carrying out various assignments on site in Wijchen such as projects regarding Food Safety, Food Quality, Food Defense, Food Fraud, Microbiological sampling, etc.
Which skills do you bring to the table:
- You are pursuing an HBO degree (Food and Business) or Master's degree (Master Food Quality Management/Master Food Safety Management or similar) and are looking for an internship from February 2025 or September 2025.
- You show a strong interest in the field of quality and food safety.
- You have excellent communication skills, are enthusiastic, eager to learn, accurate and can work independently.
- You live in the area of Wijchen.
What do we offer:
- A competitive internship fee.
- You get the chance to work in an exciting environment within a stable, innovative and progressive Belgian food group with international appeal.
- Your colleagues are ready to welcome you with open arms and share their experience with you. A warm atmosphere and personal approach ensure that you are fully on track.
- You get the opportunity to learn a lot and to develop yourself. You will be guided and supported by our colleagues in which feedback and a personal is key.