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I began working for JELD-WEN in the summer of 2002, as a Management Intern at the JELD-WEN United Window Division, in Concord Ontario. Throughout the duration of my internship I had the opportunity to learn about every aspect of the business from the most basic “hands-on” production functions right through to the most senior management business decision-making. Week by week, I was exposed to a different area of the company allowing me to gain a very good understanding of the overall business in a very short period of time.
Following my graduation from the University, as an Industrial Engineer, I returned to JELD-WEN United Window Division to manage the Steel Door Production Department. I enjoyed this position for two years before I was promoted to my current position as Reliability Manager in charge of Safety, Quality and Lean Manufacturing, for all of JELD-WEN United Window Division.
JELD-WEN is a very successful fast growing company that offers enormous opportunity for anyone looking for a successful and challenging career. The JELD-WEN Internship Program helps students understand what it takes to be “World Class” in a competitive growing marketplace, while meeting great people and learning new things.
If you are interested in understanding what it takes to be a part of a world-class organization, then a JELD-WEN Internship could be your perfect fit.
Jesse Hawthorne
Reliability Manager, Window Division – Toronto
Summer Intern 2002
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Hands-on skill-building and minds-on management training best describes a JELD-WEN internship. Interns get to experience a healthy, exciting mix of physical, mental and interpersonal challenges by being exposed to an actual, day-to-day management environment.
Through a real-world manufacturing and distribution internship, you will:
- Learn the basic workings of JELD-WEN, a multi-national, vertically integrated corporation.
- Build your knowledge of manufacturing and distribution processes, including equipment operation and maintenance.
- Spend two or more days in each significant business function, including key plant office functions.
- Learn how managers guide and lead hourly production employees and other managers.
- Observe the integration of manufacturing capacity, product quality and a safe work environment.
- Discover our philosophies and processes for the responsible use of natural resources and by-products.
- Experience our unyielding commitment to quality-control assurance and customer satisfaction.
- Accompany a member of the sales force on customer calls.
Through a real-world corporate administrative department internship in Klamath Falls, Oregon, you will:
- Accounting and Finance
- Learn to prepare a monthly financial statement for at least one operation of a multi-national company.
- Observe the integration of information systems and the financial statement preparation process.
- Conduct special operational and financial analyses under the supervision of a group controller.
- Information Systems
- Design, specify and coordinate the implementation and training for new information systems.
- Analyze opportunities for improved efficiencies, profitability and competitive advantages.
- Marketing
- Conduct market analysis.
- Develop and manage promotional and advertising projects.
- Prepare a branding recommendation.
- Perform a pricing analysis.
- Risk Management
- Safety -- Participation in DOT compliance, OSHA compliance or others as selected by our Safety Manager.
- Environmental -- Participation in EPA or DEQ inspections and reporting or other areas selected by our Environmental Manager.
- Health Benefits
- Healthcare claims adjudication, analysis and management
- Claims system and vendor management
- Analytics to identify opportunities for benefit plan enhancements
- Customer service and patient care advocacy
- Medical resource and program management
- Health benefit plan design and maintenance
- Benefit communications and health education
- Marketing of third party administrationservices
- Coordination of benefits
- Wellness program development
- DOL, HIPAA., ERISA and governmental regulatory compliance
Finally, there are two major components of our internship:
The weekly mentoring conversations with your leader, and the completion of a project which the intern and appropriate manager jointly select. The combination of a meaningful project and recurring contact with your management team provides each JELD-WEN intern with a true, career-shaping experience just in time to make the intern's senior year of school much more relevant. As a JELD-WEN intern you will return for your final year of college with a big confidence boost in your personal and professional abilities.
It's all part of our "autonomous" internship philosophy -- providing you with the personal projects, independence and real-world experience you'll need preparing for a management career.
If real-world experience and the opportunity to test-drive a career direction appeals to you we encourage you to ask yourself a few questions to determine if JELD-WEN internship is right for you.
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