About Us

Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.

What You'll Do

Primary Responsibility:

The Americold Summer 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 HR Intern 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:

• Assist in core HR Generalist work including, but not limited to the following: employee relations issues, HR audits, workplace investigations, and Employee Engagement and retention activities.
• Assist and gain exposure to core labor relations processes such as working knowledge of the collective bargaining agreement and the grievance procedure
• Assist and gain exposure to performance management including coaching and developing associates
• Assist Corporate Compliance in creating, modifying, and deploying workplace policies and guidelines necessary to maintain compliance with federal, state and local regulatory requirements
• Assist Corporate Compliance in researching requirements and best practices in response to regulatory changes or updates affecting employment practices
• Gain exposure to other projects and activities as they arise including working with and learning about other core HR functions (examples include: Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent & Culture including Diversity Inclusion & Belonging)
• Other projects as assigned

What Experience You Need

Qualifications & Experience:

• Currently enrolled at an accredited college/university as a sophomore pursuing an undergraduate degree in Business, Human Resources, Social Sciences, Sociology, Psychology or other related field of study. Those who are juniors will be considered if the candidate has completed a HR internship the prior summer.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact comfortably at all levels of the organization including front line associates and executive leaders
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and integrity at all times
• Strong bias for action coupled with attention to details
• Proficiency in the utilization of the Microsoft Office Suite of products (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint in particular)

What Could Set You Apart

• Passionate about learning and growing as a person and HR professional with a willingness to make a positive impact
• Ability to be resourceful as an individual contributor as well as being a team player with strong interpersonal skills
• The right balance of creativity coupled with strong process focus
• Interest in learning about labor relations

What We Offer

Our associates know the answer to the question What’s in it for me? We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.

Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.

Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches food suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to delivery on their commitments.