Industrial Engineering Intern

Standard Job Description

Lockheed Martin brings together people who use their passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. The company offers flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits so employees can live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. Lockheed Martin focuses on innovation, integrity, and corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.

The Industrial Engineering Intern will support the Industrial Engineering team in analyzing, designing, and improving manufacturing processes. The intern will work on real-world projects, gaining hands-on experience with lean principles, data analysis, and process optimization in a world-class final assembly manufacturing facility.

Primary Responsibilities

• Complete a series of projects that apply the analytical and problem-solving skills learned in Industrial Engineering coursework.
• Work closely with production personnel and cross-functional teams to uncover process constraints and drive actionable change.
• Assist with time study and work measurement activities.
• Analyze production data using Excel, Tableau, SQL, or Python to identify variability, bottlenecks, and risk factors that support improvement opportunities.
• Apply lean tools from problem identification through root cause analysis, develop countermeasure solutions, and verify results.
• Design, build, and maintain dashboards and performance reports that visualize key metrics, and refine reporting tools to improve data visibility for stakeholders.
• Prepare clear, concise project updates, technical documentation, and presentation decks for cross-functional audiences.

This role also includes performing assignments in technical and engineering organizations (e.g., Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering, Facilities Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering) during vacations and short-term breaks from college while enrolled in an accredited degree program.

Benefits

Benefits offered include medical, dental, vision, flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, paid time off, holidays, parental leave, EAP, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Annual incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position, and payments are not guaranteed.