AI / Automation Intern

About the role

We’re looking for a hands-on intern who can help our team build practical AI and automation tools that save time across the company. You’ll work onsite at our Addison headquarters and support real projects from day one.

What You’ll Work On

• Automation (Zapier / Power Automate / Make)
• Build and improve workflows that eliminate manual steps
• Create simple connectors, triggers, and templates we can reuse
• AI Assistants (GPT-based tools)
• Build lightweight internal “assistants” for drafting, summarizing, and lookups
• Pack each tool with basic documentation and a quick-start guide
• Knowledge Search (RAG-lite)
• Help index a small set of internal SOPs/FAQs
• Support a pilot inside one department with usage and time-saved metrics

Who You’ll Work With

• Technical Lead
• People/Program Lead
• Project Coordinator
• Metrics/Dashboards Analyst

What We’re Looking For

• Rising junior/senior in CS, IS, IE, Data, or related field
• Experience with Zapier / Power Automate / Make
• Basic Python (API calls, JSON, simple scripts)
• Familiarity with OpenAI or Azure OpenAI
• Strong documentation habits and bias for action
• Must be onsite in Addison, IL for the full internship
• US work authorization required

What You’ll Deliver

• 3–5 live automations or AI tools
• Clean documentation and SOPs for everything you build
• Before/after metrics showing time saved
• End-of-summer demo to leadership

A little about the company

• Been around since 1895
• Grown from 30 employees in 2005 to 60 in 2010 and now over 240
• Locations in Addison, IL (Headquarters), Indianapolis, IN (2018), Pittsburgh, PA (2019), Salt Lake City, UT (2021), Jurupa Valley, CA (2021), Livermore, CA (2021), Charlotte, NC (2023)
• Distribute rigid packaging products and industrial filtration
• Beautifully renovated corporate office/warehouse in Addison
• Strengths-based approach working to leverage what the employee likes to do and is good at doing
• Privately owned

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