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POSITION SUMMARY

This position reports to the Corporate Industrial Engineering Manger and supports the corporate logistics engineering team. The intern will provide support through tasks related to studies of operating processes and procedures to maximize productivity and spatial utilization.

LOCATION
Hoffman Estates, Illinois

QUALIFICATIONS  >>

  • Junior status required (in final summer before graduation)
  • Pursuing Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering
  • Desirable experience: work measurement methodologies, best method development and cost analysis for project justification
  • Effective communication skills
  • Good PC skills – Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access

RESPONSIBILITIES  >>

  • Assist with the development and maintenance of accurate work measurement systems in a warehouse environment.
  • Conduct time studies and frequency studies in distribution centers.
  • Assist in the analysis, recommendation, and implementation of enhancements to existing work methods, workflow and processes to increase throughput.
  • Administer and maintain productivity reporting processes and systems.
  • Collect data to assist in the development of distribution center and capital budgets.
  • Analysis of distribution center processes and procedures; identify operational improvement opportunities; design, evaluate and implement changes and/or revisions as required.
  • Assist corporate industrial engineering staff as directed.
  • Limited local travel required.

CAREER PATH  >>

Successful completion of the internship may lead to full-time employment after graduation in the Logistics Industrial Engineering Team in one of its field locations: Garland TX, Forest Park GA or Columbus OH.

Field Industrial Engineer -> Sr. Industrial Engineer -> Industrial Engineering Manager -> Director of Industrial Engineering

* Please review our staffing process to learn how to be considered for any of our college programs.


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