Mt. Olive Pickle Company's Agriculture Procurement team is offering internship opportunities that blend inside and outside work and gives real, hands-on experience in our day-to-day operations. This is a great chance for someone looking to learn, grow, and get involved in the agricultural side of our business.
These internships begin in May 2026 and is expected to end in August 2026.
Hours can vary based on the needs of the department but typically fall 6:00 p.m. - 3:30 a.m. with a 30 min lunch, Monday - Saturday (occasional Sunday work) during our peak season.
Interns will be exposed to various aspects of the business including, but not limited to, crop receiving and quality, inventory and data management, raw materials cycle counting, scale house procedures/receiving, and outside production processes and procedures.
Essential Functions:
· Tally and record fresh cucumber tanking and maintain daily inventory records.
· Assist with raw material cycle counting, planning, shrink analysis, and FIFO inventory usage.
· Perform crop receiving/scale house duties as needed.
· Assist Outside Production team as needed.
Rewards:
· Real-world experience with a leading US food manufacturer.
· Build your resume and develop leadership skills.
· Competitive pay.
· Exposure to multiple business areas/functions.
· Part of something big; this position plays a critical role in the success of Mt. Olive’s busy ‘green season.’
Physical Demands
- Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
- Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerate degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady forces in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a high position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound.
- Heavy Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/ or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and\or up to 5 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Work Environment
Works outside, subject to wide seasonal temperature variations and intermittent wetness from rain or some job tasks. Gloves, goggles, and ear protection available as needed.