Intern – Industrial Engineering, Retail

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 31325BR
Department: Customer Experience
Working Hours: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Pay Frequency: Weekly
Date Posted: Jan 27, 2025

Salary varies

Onsite

Full Time - Temporary

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Description

Program Introduction

At Publix, we are committed to making a difference and it’s our pleasure to continuously develop our most valuable resource— our associates. The Publix Summer Internship Program prepares a cohort of young professionals for a smorgasbord of opportunity in the workplace through relationship building, development of self-confidence, and insight into industry knowledge.

Since the inception of the program in 2007, Publix empowers interns to share, lead, and implement their creative ideas, projects, and unique contributions towards our organization and the communities we serve.

Over the course of 10 weeks, interns are immersed in consequential department projects which allow them to apply academic concepts learned in the classroom to a real-world, corporate setting. The intern cohort participates in several exclusive events including meeting with Publix executives, volunteering in a local community service event, touring manufacturing and distribution facilities, and giving an end-of-summer presentation to Publix leaders. This summer, the program will occur from May 19 through July 25 at our company facilities in Lakeland, Florida. Interns are offered competitive pay and are generally expected to work onsite 40 hours per week, although this varies by department. Additionally, we partner with Florida Southern College to provide free housing for our out-of-town interns.

Come join an organization consistently ranked as a great place to work and make valuable contributions through an inimitable experience helping you grow professionally and personally. Add your story to the Publix legacy and apply today.

* This internship posting can close within two weeks from the date it was posted. Candidates are encouraged to apply immediately.

Position Overview

The Retail Industrial Engineering Team is responsible for improving the customer experience while driving process improvements and promoting optimally efficient, accurate and safe operations by developing industrial engineering solutions to complex and high-value business problems. We partner with our assigned business units to provide consultation, project management, and engineering skills to enhance operational efficiencies and to support ad-hoc improvement, tactical and business plan initiatives that advance their customer’s strategy. Within the department, the intern will have several responsibilities:

What you’ll do

• Being assigned to a process improvement project for our stores. Project work includes:
  • Designing and conducting work studies in the store by applying work measurement, work sampling and other industrial engineering methods.
  • Leading the data analysis of the assigned project to recommend an improvement to the process.
  • Presenting the work study results and recommendation to applicable business leaders.

• Evaluating process improvement ideas from Publix associates for impact to retail operational efficiency, accuracy, safety and customer experience

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Required Qualifications

• Must be an actively enrolled student not graduating prior to the start of the Summer Internship Program in May; or
  • If graduating from a bachelor’s degree program prior to the start of the internship, starting a graduate degree program in the upcoming summer or fall semester; or
  • If graduating from a master’s degree program prior to the start of the internship, starting a graduate degree program in the upcoming summer or fall semester)
• Must be pursuing a bachelor’s or graduate degree in Industrial Engineering and be a current sophomore or above (rising junior or above as of the program start in Summer 2025) or a graduate student
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to apply business management skills including verbal and written communication, time management, problem solving, collaboration, creative thinking and working independently
• Ability to travel on occasion
• Ability to work a variable schedule on occasion
• Ability to work extended or early/late hours on occasion

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Preferred Qualifications

• Publix retail experience
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Basic knowledge of Access or SQL

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Benefits

• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
• Paycheck direct deposit
• Credit union

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Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.

Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

For this position, Publix does not and will not file a petition or application with the USCIS or Department of State on behalf of any noncitizen for any immigration-related benefit to work and/or to continue to work in the United States, e.g., an H-1B or TN petition or permanent residence.

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