Store Operations Industrial Engineering Intern
Lowe’s Summer Internship Program Overview
Lowe's 2025 Summer Internship Program offers a challenging, project-based opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to enhance their understanding of the retail business world through valuable, hands-on experience with a FORTUNE® 50 company. The internship will provide broad learning, experience, organizational knowledge, and business acumen. We are looking for:
- Students driven by potential
- Dynamic individuals who are as inspiring as they are capable of being inspired
- Sharp minds eager to take on new challenges and able to recognize and embrace new opportunities
- Great collaborators who understand the power of "we"
- People who push the boundaries of what is possible
The summer internship program begins with orientation on May 27th and concludes on August 1st. All internships are paid opportunities. And qualified interns will be eligible for Lowe's housing benefit.
Workforce Engineering Intern
Lowe’s Store Labor Engineering team works on projects related to store workforce management programs. Store labor productivity is a foundational element to enabling the Lowe’s strategy and supporting simple and seamless customer experience that is cost efficient and flexible.
The industrial engineering intern will perform in-store time studies to evaluate opportunities to improve productivity, eliminate waste, and create improved processes. The internship program will offer a variety of project focus areas in-store and culminate in a marquee project for the intern to shine! The intern will partner with other industrial engineers to learn, collaborate, and share experiences.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Gather and analyze workload requirement for store tasks and activities, conducting time studies in the store environment
- Apply appropriate analytical techniques to time studies to derive engineered labor standards
- Provide detailed labor analysis that clearly identifies specific opportunities for intervention
- Identify and quantify opportunities that enhance stores’ ability to effectively manager labor costs while maintaining customer service standards
- Evaluate alternate approaches to optimizing labor and make recommendations via formal presentation
- Ability to take big data sets and translate into a storyline for senior leadership
Education and/or Experience
- Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA is required
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering or related field from an accredited university with expected graduation dates of December 2026 or May 2027
- Proficient in MS Office Programs
- One to two years of prior experience working in a retail environment
- Strong collaborative, troubleshooting, problem solving, communication, data analysis and presentation skills are required
- Ability to be cognizant of human behavior and human interaction with environmental and work area conditions when developing processes
- Strong oral, written, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Analytical skills
- Data collection and reporting
- Experience in developing engineered labor standards
- Relevant internship experience and/or other related work experience, such as a leadership role in student/campus organizations, volunteering, etc.
Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.
