Internship - Engineering & Construction - Lowes Foods

As the Engineering and Construction Intern with Lowes Foods, you are part of a team with a broad responsibility for facility management of our grocery stores.  Both our Construction and Maintenance groups work hard to support our store teams, as they focus on our guests.  It is both exciting and challenging with new twists every day. 

Together, the intern team will work with our Construction and Maintenance teams to gain a high-level understanding of grocery operations, systems, and equipment.  They will work with Construction Project Managers and Maintenance Supervisors to improve processes and reporting. 

In addition, our team is always looking for ways to work smarter, faster, and more efficient; provide a recommendation for a cost saving initiative or identify a process efficiency.  Examples could include:

• Refrigerated & Frozen space optimization. Identify opportunities to reduce square footage of backroom cooler / freezer space
• Analyze the breakdown of equipment within maintenance and provide a recommendation for either proactive replacement or additional warehouse inventory of key items to improve uptime.
• Provide recommendations to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for improved communication and workflow with other departments.
• Provide support for the rollout of a new maintenance software program at all stores.

At the end of the experience, the team will have the opportunity to present their projects to Lowes Foods’ senior management team.

During the internship, the intern will learn/do:

• Gain an understanding of our construction process for remodels and new builds.  Learn how projects are designed, estimated, approved, and managed through construction.
• Occasional ride-along with the Project Manager to gain exposure to project management and store construction activities.
• Understand how equipment is ordered and assist in matching plans to budget.

Project expectations:

• Responsible for mapping our current process for construction activities from inception to planning, and construction.  Provide recommendations to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for improved communication and workflow with other departments. 
• Partner with the Kj’s merchant team to finalize design of salesfloor merchandise fixtures.  Work with various fixturing suppliers to catalogue choices and provide a Lowes/Kj’s fixturing package for new and remodel stores.
• Work with our various architects to update the archive of engineering and architectural plans for all stores.
• Learn general campaign flighting and asset release. 

• Interest in Architecture, Engineering or Project Management
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Microsoft Office:  Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• CAD or similar design software experience is preferred but not required

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