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2024 Summer Intermodal and Automotive Terminal and Service Planning Intern

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Norfolk Southern

Oct 14, 2023

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Logistics
  • Atlanta

Requirements

  • Qualifications/ Skills:
  • Self-starter willing to learn about IMAU terminal and rail operations.
  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on detail and accuracy.
  • Technical skills to identify opportunities for process improvement and implement solutions to increase efficiency.
  • Solid interpersonal skills to engage with your team, leadership, and external customers/partners.
  • Education/Experience:
  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree
  • Preferred Majors: Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transportation Management, Finance, Marketing, International Business, Data Analytics and majors in a similar field of study will be considered
  • Proficient in MS office with an emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

  • Service Planning
  • Data Retrieval, composition, analyzation for intermodal service and capital projects.
  • Develop and update presentations for senior management, customers, and internal business stakeholders.
  • Assist in development of business tools and analytic dashboards.
  • Assist in intermodal scheduling and end-to-end service planning.
  • Identify performance trends and perform root cause analysis to develop solutions.
  • Work to identify industry trends and perform benchmarking activities and internal progress.
  • Terminal Planning
  • Review of terminal acreages XLS (acres owned, developed, paved) and addition of newly completed projects. Editing the associated KML file.
  • Review and update of pavement inventory database with most recent terminal projects.
  • Review of all online terminal parking maps (PDF) for accuracy, make changes as needed, and upload updates to the NS website. Engage trucking partners on how to improve maps.
  • Operating Expense trend analysis to help identify terminals where CapEx can reduce OpEx. Visualize data by terminal and draw conclusions.
  • Identify and implement changes to make IMAU asset data more user friendly and to visualize key construction project timelines.
  • Automotive Damage Prevention
  • Perform data analysis to identify automotive damage trends and root cause analysis.
  • Develop and update presentations for meetings with automotive manufacturers to report results and recommended actions.
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Norfolk Southern

Transportation
Industry
10,001+
Employees
1827
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Since 1827, Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that power the U.S. economy. Today, we operate a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network across 19,000 route miles and have the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern United States. Norfolk Southern serves a majority of the country’s population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Committed to furthering sustainability, we help our customers avoid 15 million tons of annual carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Our railroaders deliver more than 7 million carloads each year, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Visit our website to learn more about transporting your company’s goods with Norfolk Southern and to calculate how you can decarbonize your supply chain through freight rail.