Industrial Engineering Intern - Kansas City

Primary Responsibility :

The Americold Summer Internship Experience is a 12-week, full time, paid internship that takes place over the summer term in various locations throughout the country.

During this experience, our interns will gain valuable knowledge related to Industrial Engineering while contributing to the one of the COOLest business sectors.

The internship opportunity will afford our interns to better understand of the supply chain industry, work on challenging and industry-specific projects, plus the ability to collaborate with organizational leaders, colleagues, and peers.

As an Americold Intern, the experience you will gain here will not only be essential to your personal and professional growth and development, but your contributions can make a vital difference for our company.

What You'll Do :

• Install engineered standards labor management systems in DCs.
• Standards creation and validation through time studies and observations.
• Calculate and implement performance incentives.
• Provide labor management system training and guidance to operations / facility leadership
• Engineering programming and configuration in Red Prairie Work Force Management system including mapping of warehouses.
• Evaluate material handling methods for process improvements.
• Evaluate material handling equipment requirements as needed.
• Evaluate and make recommendations for process improvements, improving productivity and costs reduction.
• Develop plans to complete project tasks based on priority
• Keep abreast of the latest technology in warehousing and evaluate for applications.
• Develop and execute project scopes, specifications and estimates as needed
• Engineering technical and operational support as needed.
• Work independently to complete above mentioned functions.
• Other duties as requested.

What Experience and Education You Need :

• Currently enrolled at an accredited college/university as a rising junior, rising senior or graduate student in the field of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management
• Exposure to labor standards or relevant course work preferred.
• ERP systems exposure for WMS, LMS
• Microsoft Office - strong excel
• Power BI - intermediate to advanced experience
• Experience with the distribution/warehouse/logistics industry preferred
• AutoCAD - intermediate experience
• MOST familiarity

What Could Set You Apart :

• Ability to resolve problems in a timely manner with little or no supervision
• Able to work in a multi-functional team environment
• Ability to work in office and facility environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills required
• Strong analytical skills required
• Strong time management skills required
• Must be self-motivated with high degree of initiative
• Advanced Excel skills

Physical Requirements :

• The physical demands described be...