Data Engineer Co-Op - Summer 2026
About the role
Position Title: Global Tech Co-op - Data Engineer / Analyst
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 02
Requisition ID: 40043
Data Engineer / Analyst Co-Op. In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role. We are seeking an enthusiastic Data Engineer/Analyst co-op student to join our dynamic team for a four-month work term beginning in May 2026. This opportunity offers hands-on experience in data engineering and analytics, providing an ideal environment to develop your technical skills, work collaboratively on impactful projects, and contribute to innovative solutions within our organization.
What You’ll Be Doing.
- This position will be based in our Florenceville office, with the expectation of working onsite/in-office three days a week.
- You will be working on data engineering pipelines that will cleanse, transform, and produce data for Power BI reports to consume.
- Bring data from new sources into the data platform to produce insights on them.
- Creating Power BI dashboards to showcase code quality and improvements over time.
- Documentation and translation of business rules to develop technical code using Python, SQL, and PySpark to produce insights.
- Working with a team locally and distributed across the organization to achieve project deliverables
- You will learn how to build data analytics pipelines end to end; from gathering requirements to producing the finished product.
- Best practices for developing software and test-driven development to build quality products.
- How to translate business requirements into code.
- The ability to gather and understand complex problems and use a variety of tools to solve them.
- How to work and communicate with various teams across the enterprise.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful.
- Currently enrolled in your 3rd or 4th year of university, seeking a Computer Science or equivalent bachelor’s or master’s degree.
- Experience with PySpark is preferred.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as PowerBI is preferred.
- Experience with cloud-based platforms like Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services preferred.
- Systematic approach to problem-solving.
- Strong communication skills at all levels of the organization.
- Proficient in writing Python code is required.
- Proficient at writing queries and validating results using SQL is required.
- Systematic approach to problem-solving.
- Strong communication skills at all levels of the organization.
About The Team. The Data Engineer/Analyst co-op student will assist the six-person team located in our Florenceville office and the other 60+ team members globally in ensuring a high standard of data quality and increasing the trust in data for the enterprise. The Data Engineer/Analyst team is part of the broader Data Engineering team. Its focus is ensuring high-quality data for the business, increasing trust in data, and enabling more accurate insights.
This position will be based in our Florenceville office, with the expectation of working onsite/in-office three days a week.
About McCain. Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles. At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience. We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Hybrid Compensation Package $23.00 - $26.00 CAD hourly
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Due to the duration of this role, you will not be eligible for traditional benefits though our programs. McCain's early careers programming offers a multitude of learning experiences aimed at advancing your career in the future.
Compensation Package: $23.00 - $26.00 CAD hourly wage equivalent, paid salary. The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Due to the duration of this role, you will not be eligible for traditional benefits through our programs. McCain's early careers programming offers a multitude of learning experiences aimed at advancing your career in the future. Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home. McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here . Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Digital Technology
Department: Data Quality
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
About McCain Foods
At McCain, we believe food plays an important role in people’s lives, with the power to bring individuals, families, and communities together.
As a privately owned family company with over 67 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries, and a global team of 23,000+ people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $14 billion. Through our investment and innovation agenda, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers.
Guided by our purpose—celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food—we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change. At McCain, sustainability goes to the heart of our purpose as a business. That purpose means putting agronomy at the forefront of all we do to ensure healthier soils which lead to more sustainably sourced food. It means reducing our climate impact and supporting the communities where we operate—today, tomorrow and for generations to come. 🌱🥔🍟
Connect with McCain Foods on: Instagram: @McCainGlobal Twitter: @McCainGlobal YouTube: @McCainFoodsGlobal Threads: @mccainglobal
💛 #WeAreMcCain
Data Engineer Co-Op - Summer 2026
About the role
Position Title: Global Tech Co-op - Data Engineer / Analyst
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 02
Requisition ID: 40043
Data Engineer / Analyst Co-Op. In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role. We are seeking an enthusiastic Data Engineer/Analyst co-op student to join our dynamic team for a four-month work term beginning in May 2026. This opportunity offers hands-on experience in data engineering and analytics, providing an ideal environment to develop your technical skills, work collaboratively on impactful projects, and contribute to innovative solutions within our organization.
What You’ll Be Doing.
- This position will be based in our Florenceville office, with the expectation of working onsite/in-office three days a week.
- You will be working on data engineering pipelines that will cleanse, transform, and produce data for Power BI reports to consume.
- Bring data from new sources into the data platform to produce insights on them.
- Creating Power BI dashboards to showcase code quality and improvements over time.
- Documentation and translation of business rules to develop technical code using Python, SQL, and PySpark to produce insights.
- Working with a team locally and distributed across the organization to achieve project deliverables
- You will learn how to build data analytics pipelines end to end; from gathering requirements to producing the finished product.
- Best practices for developing software and test-driven development to build quality products.
- How to translate business requirements into code.
- The ability to gather and understand complex problems and use a variety of tools to solve them.
- How to work and communicate with various teams across the enterprise.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful.
- Currently enrolled in your 3rd or 4th year of university, seeking a Computer Science or equivalent bachelor’s or master’s degree.
- Experience with PySpark is preferred.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as PowerBI is preferred.
- Experience with cloud-based platforms like Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services preferred.
- Systematic approach to problem-solving.
- Strong communication skills at all levels of the organization.
- Proficient in writing Python code is required.
- Proficient at writing queries and validating results using SQL is required.
- Systematic approach to problem-solving.
- Strong communication skills at all levels of the organization.
About The Team. The Data Engineer/Analyst co-op student will assist the six-person team located in our Florenceville office and the other 60+ team members globally in ensuring a high standard of data quality and increasing the trust in data for the enterprise. The Data Engineer/Analyst team is part of the broader Data Engineering team. Its focus is ensuring high-quality data for the business, increasing trust in data, and enabling more accurate insights.
This position will be based in our Florenceville office, with the expectation of working onsite/in-office three days a week.
About McCain. Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles. At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience. We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
Hybrid Compensation Package $23.00 - $26.00 CAD hourly
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Due to the duration of this role, you will not be eligible for traditional benefits though our programs. McCain's early careers programming offers a multitude of learning experiences aimed at advancing your career in the future.
Compensation Package: $23.00 - $26.00 CAD hourly wage equivalent, paid salary. The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Due to the duration of this role, you will not be eligible for traditional benefits through our programs. McCain's early careers programming offers a multitude of learning experiences aimed at advancing your career in the future. Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home. McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here . Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Digital Technology
Department: Data Quality
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
About McCain Foods
At McCain, we believe food plays an important role in people’s lives, with the power to bring individuals, families, and communities together.
As a privately owned family company with over 67 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries, and a global team of 23,000+ people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $14 billion. Through our investment and innovation agenda, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers.
Guided by our purpose—celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food—we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change. At McCain, sustainability goes to the heart of our purpose as a business. That purpose means putting agronomy at the forefront of all we do to ensure healthier soils which lead to more sustainably sourced food. It means reducing our climate impact and supporting the communities where we operate—today, tomorrow and for generations to come. 🌱🥔🍟
Connect with McCain Foods on: Instagram: @McCainGlobal Twitter: @McCainGlobal YouTube: @McCainFoodsGlobal Threads: @mccainglobal
💛 #WeAreMcCain