Summer Internship - Fast Hire

We are looking for an experienced Summer Internship to join our awesome team at Beacon Building Products in Kansas City, KS.
Growing your career as a Internship Summer Internship is a fantastic opportunity to develop exceptional skills.
If you are strong in critical thinking, persuasion and have the right experience for the job, then apply for the position of Summer Internship at Beacon Building Products today!

Beacon Building Products is seeking a hard-working student intern to assist within a Local Branch Operations Team. The Intern would support the Kansas City, KS branch team by interacting with internal and external customers, learning warehouse and inventory, support operational needs, people management, culture, leadership development, and complete miscellaneous projects as needed. Training will include live training sessions (four total), eLearning, WebEx courses, on-site training and follow up to insure goal accomplishment of each training at a distribution branch. The student intern will gain experience with one of the world’s leading distributor of building supplies. This role will be full time during the summer.

The primary responsibilities my include:

• Order taking, delivery scheduling, and assisting walk in counter sale customers, warehouse, and delivery assistance.
• Maintain customer relations through phone goodwill to existing customers.
• Maintain and convey all relevant competitive sales knowledge directly to the Branch Manager for dissemination to the Outside Sales Representatives.
• Handle incoming customer complaints in a prompt and courteous manner.
• Attend all training sessions for inside sales representatives.
• Count, verify and manually unload incoming orders and shipments while utilizing a forklift for moving inventory.
• Verify and manually load outgoing orders onto customer vehicles.
• General yard and office maintenance to include cleaning and painting.
• Maintain inventory in appropriate/designated storage areas in warehouse.
• Provide excellent customer service using professional communication skills.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

This intern program has been highly successful at giving valuable experience to students as well as providing potential long-term opportunities within the company. 

Desired Experience

• Available full-time 40 hours during summer
• Minimum of 2 years college completion
• Business, Sales, Marketing, Accounting, or Supply Chain majors preferred.
• Must be hard-working, responsible, reliable, and have leadership characteristics.
• Must be able to think critically to solve daily issues.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits of working as a Summer Internship in Kansas City, KS:

● Excellent benefits
● Opportunities to grow
● Attractive package