Global Operations Command Center Intern

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.  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.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the People, Process and Technology being used to execute automated business from our state-of-the-art Central Operations Command Center

• Design and execute an Optimization Project. Apply your skills and passion for excellence to optimize Command Center execution applications and / or the Processes for communicating with and optimizing site service KPI’s

• Work in the Control Room with our subject matter experts and make trips to automated warehouses to ground yourself in our business, develop key business relationships and find root causes for your optimization project

Key Responsibilities:

• Become a “best friend at work”. In word and deed demonstrate that you can interact well with the experts and add value with an engaging and energetic approach to sustainable continuous improvement.

• Navigate enterprise level software applications to understand warehouse execution Processes, Quantitative Information about the business and how work is executed within the Command Center.

• Within your assigned scope of work be curious and diligent as you seek root cause, develop a solution direction and justify your solution proposal.

• Organize you work and apply your academic training so you can efficiently and effectively provide updates to leaders at all levels and facilitate meetings to enable you to complete your project in a way that delivers sustainable continuous improvement.

What Experience You Need:

• Current senior enrolled at an accredited college/university for an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Analytics, Operations, Supply Chain/Logistics or related field of study

• Educational training that provides for a career in high-speed, high volume state of the art automated and conventional warehousing or manufacturing

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to query and analyze complex data sets and derive meaningful insights

• Technical proficiency with knowledge with data analysis tools (e.g. SQL, Excel, Python) and data visualization software (Power BI or similar visualization tools).

What could set you apart:

• Self-starter with an engaging and intellectually curious personality.

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Academic training in areas related to LEAN Sigma thinking and LEAN Processes or the application of quantitative information and analytical thinking to solve complex Process problems

• Passion for operations execution and how digital applications and the physical world come together in operations execution.

• Previous leadership experience at any level, in sports, academic or social organization, SGA, etc.

• Relevant work history/job experience – past summer jobs, internships, part-time roles, etc.

• Demonstrated excellence in a personal/professional endeavor such as high level of skills in athletics, hobbies, music, dance, visual arts, etc.