Intern - Industrial Engineering, Retail
About The Position
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 measurements, 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
Requirements
- 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 junior or above (rising senior or above as of the program start in Summer 2026) 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
- valid driver's license and reliable form of transportation
Nice To Haves
- current Publix retail associate
- intermediate knowledge of Excel
- basic knowledge of Access or SQL
Responsibilities
- being assigned to a process improvement project for our stores.
- Project work includes designing and conducting work studies in the store by applying work measurements, 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
Benefits
- Free housing provided in partnership with Florida Southern College (for interns that live outside of a 25-mile radius of the corporate office)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
