Operations Management Intern, Summer 2025 - Grain Handling (Multiple U.S. Locations)

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Your Internship:

Gain real experience. Learn from the best. See how your work matters.

Our internships are designed to prepare you for your career journey, not a final destination. When you join our team, you are welcomed into a community committed to providing you with a safe environment to learn, grow and cultivate your skills. With our expansive learning resources, our well-respected leaders, and our carefully curated development courses, you will be equipped to confidently solve tomorrow's global issues. And, truthfully, our future relies on you. Your innovative minds, your intentional collaboration, and your sincere desire to nourish the world. Your work may be local, but at Cargill, your impact will be global. Join our community to cultivate your curiosity, develop meaningful relationships and propel your career.

Your Role:

From day one, you are considered an integral part of the team. You will have the opportunity to build specific skills, knowledge and attitudes that will enable you to transition to various roles. We pride ourselves on having one of the most diverse career trajectories in the industry. As an intern, you will collaborate and build relationships with colleagues and clients who represent diverse work, culture and resolution styles. We look for people who want to grow, support, think and produce. You've got big plans. We can help you pursue them.

Your Work:

The Operations Management Intern role is a training role that will prepare you for the plant Operations Management Associate role. Internships are typically 12 weeks long, enabling you to become familiar with the workflow of plant operations giving you learning and shadowing opportunities across plant teams and departments. During the internship you will seek real challenges, cultivate your curiosity, have client exposure, enjoy both personal and team accomplishments and have your initiative acknowledged along the way. You will be exposed to a number of areas to learn skills and gain knowledge vital to succeed in an operations leadership role, such as:

 

• Risk Management: Understand leadership in safety and regulatory compliance consistent with our Guiding Principles. Food and Feed Safety are also critically important to our business.

• Talent Management: Understand what it takes to lead, mentor, and develop a diverse team of operations employees to ensure goals and standards of the organization are being met. Gain knowledge of Human Resources policies and strategies to maintain and increase employee engagement.

• Reliability Excellence: Understand production maintenance to ensure plants are capable of serving and meeting customer requirements.

• Operational Efficiency: Understand plant operations in alignment with all functions to achieve business and profitability objectives.

• Capital Efficiency: Collaborate with teams in capital project initiatives to ensure ongoing market competitiveness of plant assets.

• Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with teams in production process improvements through tools/activities.

Your Environment:

When you join one of our Grain Facilities you will get a little dirty and dusty. That’s because these are boots-on-the-ground facilities where you spend 60% of your time outdoors. There, you’ll learn elevator operations and eventually lead a small team. You’ll feel the wind in your face and sun on your skin from the tops of our silos. It is sometimes challenging work as you will have the possibility of working varying shift hours; 8 to 14-hour shifts, and even 6 to 7-day weeks depending on customer demand.

As an industry leader, it’s all part of contributing to a successful team that does things right, reaches higher, and puts our people first. Your work in these facilities will be vital to our mission of nourishing the world. 

Our Programming:

• With comprehensive learning resources at your disposal, you can take your learning in any direction.

• As employees, interns receive access to volunteer and community outreach opportunities and paid time off for volunteer activities up to 2 hours/month.

• Throughout the internship, interns and co-ops are invited to participate in events that will give exposure to leadership, provide development opportunities, and offer the ability to network with cross-functional interns/co-ops across the U.S.

Internship details:

 

• Internships are typically 12 weeks