Retail Facilities Management Internship
Lowe's 2025 Summer Internship Program offers a challenging, project-based opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to enhance their understanding of the retail business world through valuable, hands-on experience with a FORTUNE® 50 company. The internship will provide broad learning, experience, organizational knowledge, and business acumen. We are looking for:
- Students driven by potential
- Dynamic individuals who are as inspiring as they are capable of being inspired
- Sharp minds eager to take on new challenges and able to recognize and embrace new opportunities
- Great collaborators who understand the power of "we"
- People who push the boundaries of what is possible
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The summer internship program begins with orientation on May 27th and concludes on August 1st. All internships are paid opportunities. Qualified interns will be eligible for Lowe's housing benefit.
Retail Facilities Store Equipment Strategy Internship
The Store Equipment Strategy team is responsible for planning and analysis, performance baselining, and overall asset portfolio health of all store equipment assets. They partner with the Enterprise Strategic Sourcing team on current and upcoming RFPs to assess optimal vendor support for service and replacement of all assets and vendor audits to ensure vendors are abiding by contractual rates and fees. They lead pilots and strategic initiatives to drive opportunities across the business, partnering cross-functionally across the broader organization.
The Store Equipment internship will consist of a project-based assignment focused on process automation through intelligent assets and use of AI to analyze big data and make informed decisions enabling just in time maintenance & repair. Through this experience the position will gain an overall broaden perspective of Facility Management and its impact on business results, organizational knowledge, and business acumen.
Areas of learning
- Understand Retail Facilities store equipment assets and preventative maintenance, reactive repairs and planned and reactive replacements
- Participate on a cross functional team to deploy a 3rd party intelligent asset data tracking hardware for Store Equipment Assets and explore ways to collect and organize data into actionable tasks utilizing AI.
- Lead a vendor audit by becoming familiar with the SOW contract, partnering with cross-functional teams, conducting an analysis on historical workorders, and presenting key findings and action items
- Participate in deep dives on store equipment problem areas and present analysis conclusions and action items
- Assist in capital planning by determining asset counts, age, etc to help build the capital budget for the 2025 Plan
Education and/or Experience:
- Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Business Analytics, Data Science, Facility Management, Finance, or related fields from an accredited university with expected graduation dates of December 2025 or May 2026
- Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA is required
- Strong Analytical skills with an interest in turning big data into actionable results
- Proficient in MS Office Programs (specifically Word, Excel, PowerBI, and Power Point) & SQL or other relational database management system
- Strong collaborative, innovative, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills are required
- Relevant internship and experience is a plus, as is experience in a leadership position at work or within a campus organization
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.