Americold Looking for Design Engineering Internship at Atlanta, GA  Full Time

Americold provides temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation to food producers, restaurants, schools and retail outlets such as grocery stores. We’re proud to provide an essential link in the food industry supply chain and to help put food on tables around the world.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and operates temperature-controlled warehouses around the world. We have over 16,000 associates and offer a wide variety of career opportunities – from warehouse forklift operators and supervisors to accounting, administration, business development, customer support, engineering, transportation, and technology solutions positions.

Primary Responsibility:

The Americold 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 Design 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.

Essential Functions:

Provide engineering, project management and analytical support to the Design Engineering department and other support responsibilities as requested. Essentially support the design and implementation of new facilities and retrofits.
* Customized logistics solutions and layouts for Americold’s customers
* Sales initiatives involving the analysis of customer requirements, in conjunction with other departments, to create proposals for new business
* Detailed analysis of customer product profiles to determine warehousing requirements, including resource modeling, layout planning, material flow planning and equipment definition
* Internal initiatives involving the compilation of databases that keep in-house facility information at the disposal of the engineering department so it can serve as ‘subject matter experts’ for the company
* Management of solution design process, leading discussions on pick faces, reserve pallet storage, dock doors, expansion square footage, yard changes, rack changes, etc.
* Develop new facility designs to scale by drawing in AutoCAD – both warehouse and site plans – to support new business proposals
* Deliver discrete event simulation models (in FlexSim) to accurately predict capacity constraints, functionality, and aesthetically accurate representations of proposed designs
* Modify or alter existing facility layouts in AutoCAD to represent alterations for a customer’s requirement (re-racking, temperature changes, additional dock doors, etc.)
* Create spreadsheets, layouts and documentation to explain how a proposed solution meets the long-term needs of our customer
* Price estimate conceptual layouts and provide options that provide labor savings opportunities
* Work with sites to organize, catalog and electronically store drawings/layouts of facilities, sites, and refrigeration diagrams when we do not have documentation
* Develop presentations for corporate staff, marketing, event functions and sales efforts
* Research and understand options in racking automation and material handling equipment to meet the business requirements
* Learn about facility design and implementation; visit sites, understand processes; match operational needs to design solutions
* Support project management of solution implementation in the US or internationally as needed
* Support SCS team to prepare RFPs for Internal Capital Development projects, including solution design, data analysis, and validation of information
* Communicate and coordinate cross functioning team to find the best solution to the project

Qualifications & Experience:
* Currently enrolled at an accredited college/university for an undergraduate or graduate degree in Industrial or Systems Engineering, Operations Management, or related field of study, preferably rising senior
* 6 months to 1 year of project-related design work; completed internship preferred
* Working knowledge of AutoCAD software
* Advanced knowledge and capabilities with Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, VBA & SQL
* Excellent technical skills including a strong command of Word, Access, PowerPoint and Visio
* General understanding of facility layout and design (coursework/project examples)
* Preferred experience with commercial simulation packages (FlexSim strongly preferred)
* Proven ability to take initiative and meet deadlines
* Ability to articulate why a proposed design is recommended and how it meets requirements

Knowledge & Employment Standards:

* Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact comfortably with senior level business contacts
* Strong organizational and analytical skills
* Must be able to work flexible hours based on business needs
* Must be able to commute to our corporate office, our field management, and warehouse associates
* Willing to travel to any of Americold’s locations, expenses paid by the company

Physical Requirements & Abilities:

* The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job
* Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions
* Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending
* Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work
* Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks
* May require travel by automobile and airplane
* May require visiting facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing
* May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds
* Requires the use of various electronic tools
* Occasionally works evenings or weekends in order to complete objectives or to attend meetings
* Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes
* Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management

Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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