Spring 2026 Industrial Engineering Co-op – Bolton, ON

Job Description:

At Mars, we work together to build a better world for people, pets, and the planet. From being a socially responsible business, to investing in our Associates, we’re always looking at how we can make tomorrow brighter.
As an Associate, you are empowered with the freedom and tools to be yourself, to forge your own path, to build relationships across our global community, to discover the right opportunities for you to grow – all with ample support. Here, you have our ongoing commitment to your growth and development as you work across our world-famous brands.

Start your journey at Mars today!

Mars Canada Industrial Engineering Co-op Experience

As a Mars Canada Co-op, you will gain exposure to the following areas:

• Help implement site improvement projects and kaizens to enhance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) especially The Reliability Score (TRS) and to contribute with loss elimination
• Work with the Site IE Lead to run Kaizens, SMED activities
• Collaborate with multiple teams Including Operations, Reliability, Quality and Safety.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Conduct and coordinate time studies and analysis to identify and quantify opportunities or shortfalls in the value stream and/or direct cost financial performance.
• Provide analysis and data on bottleneck capacity for each process function for evaluation of potential capacity constraints.
• Perform a key role in the team process of setting line performance standards, e.g., KPI’s (ATS, TRS, MTBS) and line capacity impacting short- and long-term delivery of safety, quality, customer service, and cost deliverables.
• Conduct and coordinate studies and analysis to identify and quantify process and product quality and/or capacity constraints and opportunities to increase throughput.
• This position and all site associates are responsible for quality and food safety of products at the site.
• Drive the Focused Improvement Pillar forward through the Supply Excellence Program.

What can you expect from Mars?

• The Mars Co-op Experience is an 8-month (January to August) program providing excellent depth of experience with real business problems and opportunities.
• Exciting professional and social engagement activities throughout the experience that provides opportunities to network with your intern peers all the way up to senior leaders.
• Best-in-class training and development from Day 1, including a formal mentor, access to our in-house Mars University, and more.
• Ongoing coaching and mentorship to help you succeed and get the most out of your experience.

About Mars, Incorporated

For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us.

Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of Confectionery, Food, and Petcare products and services, we employ over 140,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’S®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL™, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses, including AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, and VCA™.

We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive. The Mars Compass,

inspired by the Economics of Mutuality, is used to measure the company’s progress in service of its purpose; The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today.

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