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2027 Summer Intern – Lean Material Strategies / Warehouse Management Systems
General Motors
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- Warren, Michigan, United States of America
- Posted
- Sep 23
Job Description
The Role:
The LMS/WMS Intern will support Lean Material Strategies by analyzing warehouse and material-flow processes, improving WMS data accuracy and standard work, and helping translate operational needs into practical process and system improvements. The intern will work with cross-functional partners to improve inventory visibility, material availability, space utilization, and line-side delivery performance, additional special projects in the safety and technology space will be assigned.
The Team:
The Lean Material Strategies team develops scalable material-handling, warehouse, and digital solutions that support safe, efficient, and reliable manufacturing operations.
What you'd do
- Map current-state warehouse and material flows, identify waste and process variation, and recommend improvements.
- Analyze WMS/ERP data to identify inventory accuracy, transaction, slotting, replenishment, and material-availability opportunities.
- Develop standard work, process maps, visual management, and dashboards to support sustainable improvements.
- Collaborate with plant operations, logistics, engineering, supply chain, and IT stakeholders to test and implement solutions.
- Potential project: pilot a WMS inventory-accuracy and material-flow visibility improvement at a selected operation by establishing a baseline, identifying root causes, developing a dashboard and countermeasures, and measuring results and/ or project in digitalization, safety and or technology space.
- Pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field
- Must be graduating between December 2027 and June 2030
- Able to work fulltime, 40 hours per week during the summer months
- Must be willing to work in a plant environment and travel to GM manufacturing facilities as needed
- Starts
- 2026-09-23