Sustainability Intern

Full Summary:
Summer is just around the corner, and what better way to enjoy it than to intern with Amy s Kitchen!We are a family-owned, proudly independent organic food company and Certified B Corporation whose purpose is to make it easy and enjoyable foreveryone to eat well.
Amy s is committed to cooking authentic great tasting food with high quality, meticulously sourced organic ingredients and making them convenient for consumers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Project Details:
Develop Food Ingredient Life Cycle Assessment ToolDevelop a tool to quantify the GHG, water, land use, and avoided fertilizer/pesticide application associated with Amy's annual purchases of organic ingredients.Environmental impact quantification and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research.The objectives of the project are twofold:
To develop a replicable methodology for pulling annual purchase data in BI and systematically grouping ingredients by type.Researching and identifying the right resources to use as activity factors to quantify the key impact areas (GHG, water, land use, chemical avoidance).Mentorship with the Director of Sustainability.Qualifications and Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.EDUCATIONAttending four-year college or university to attain Bachelor's degree ideally in Earth Science, Environmental Studies, Environmental Economics, LCA or other related fields; or already awarded Bachelor s degree from four-year college or university.REQUIRED SKILLSPreviously work experience within the Sustainability field is ideal.Working knowledge of LCA and basic principles of GHG accounting.Familiarity with the concept of supply chain impact quantification.Ability to operate independently and drive results despite ambiguity.Previous experience conducting research.Excellent organizational, interpersonal, project leadership, analytical, and reasoning skills.Self-starter and a team player that will thrive in an entrepreneurial environment with a sense of urgency.Advanced experience in Excel.SKILLSLanguage SkillsAbility to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.Ability to make effective presentations on complex topics to plant management and other stakeholders.Mathematical SkillsAbility to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysisReasoning AbilityAbility to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variablesCERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONSNone required.PHYSICAL DEMANDSThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENTThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, cold (coolers and freezers) and hot (processing equipment) conditions and moving mechanical parts.
The noise level in the work environment can be loud.
TRAVELNoneCompensation range for the Santa Rosa, CA area:
$17.40-23.00 per hour
Associated topics:
agrosciences, air monitoring, conservation, ecological, environment, farm, sustainability, water, water monitoring, wetlands