Job Location
MASON BUS AND INNOVATION CTR
Job Description
Purdue University R&D Engineer Co-op- Purdue Students Graduating in 2028/2029 ONLY
Your first step towards an amazing career in Research and Development (R&D) at Procter and Gamble (P&G) starts with applying to this co-op. Within an R&D co-op, you’ll be actively involved in creating, reimagining and launching new innovations which improve our consumers lives… all around the world.
The duration of our co-ops range from 12-24 weeks within the fiscal year located on-site at our Mason, OH or Cincinnati, OH sites. We are looking for a co-op starting January/February 2027. As a co-op, you'll receive a co-op allowance. At P&G, Intern/Co-Op sessions are considered temporary employment, with a predicted ending point.
What you'd do
- Products Research: Deeply understand our consumers and their needs in order to inform product design parameters for new or improved products.
- Analytical & Measurement Science: Creates & develops ways to measure and characterize our products translating the consumer use experience to product specifications, ensuring superior and consistent functionality throughout the product lifecycle.
- Product Design & Development: Translates the consumer’s needs into the design and technical specifications of delightful grooming products which can be manufactured at scale.
- Product Formulation & Design: Translates the consumer’s needs into the development of delightful finished-products which use the best available technologies/chemicals/materials.
- Packaging Development: Creates and improves packages that delight consumers and retailers.
- Packaging technologists lead the development of packages of superior function and premium design.
- In addition to ensuring the product functions well once the consumer has brought it home, we place a premium in ensuring that our packages are responsibly developed with sustainability in mind.
- Blades & Metals Process Innovation: Deliver groundbreaking blade edge innovation through mastery of process, product, and equipment.
- Process Development & Pilot Plant Operations: Translates ideas, concepts, and technologies into the design and scale-up of commercially feasible, state of the art, chemical and mechanical manufacturing processes.
- Material Development: Start by developing 'new to the world' raw material technologies so we can meet our customer's needs with the highest quality, best performing materials.
- Modeling and Simulation (M&S): M&S development is a powerful capability which increasingly underpins the work across all our R&D functions.
- Our M&S experts are developing new to the world mathematical models which speed the pace and impact of our innovations.
- Data Science: Here, we would want you to communicate complex data or algorithms into simple conclusions that will empower others to drive action based on the insights you derive.
- As a Data Scientist, you will transform the business to enable better decision-making through the use of advanced analytics.
What they want
- We are looking for Bachelor's/Master's students who are majoring in engineering degrees graduating in 2028 or 2029.
- We offer a wide range of roles for Chemical, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. Increasingly, we have roles designed for Data Science/Analytics.
- Have strong communication skills.
- Have both critical thinking and active listening.
- Has the ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
- Candidates attending Purdue University must be able to work from Cincinnati/Mason, OH without relocation assistance.
- Responsibilities as of Day 1 – you will feel the ownership of your project from the beginning, and you will be given specific projects and responsibilities.
- Continuous mentorship – you will work with passionate people and receive both formal training as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager.
- Work and be part of a dynamic and encouraging environment - working over a diverse array of interesting problems.
- Promote agility and work/life balance for employees, we value every individual and support initiatives.
- Starts
- 2026-09-29