Packaging Corporation of America · 3 months ago
Intern ME Winter Break 2025
Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is a Fortune 500 company that specializes in corrugated packaging and white paper solutions. They are seeking interns for the Winter Break of 2025 to work on various capital projects and reliability tasks, providing hands-on experience in engineering and operations.
Business DevelopmentManufacturingPackaging Services
Responsibilities
You will be immersed in a high-energy, innovative culture – doing meaningful work, managing projects, and making decisions from the moment you walk into the Mill
Your daily interactions with PCA personnel in Engineering and Operations will sharpen your communication skills and strengthen your leadership qualities
You will work on various Capital projects throughout the mill
Each semester will be different due to mill outages timeframes and the different projects
You will learn the project process starting from the funding request through completion of the job
Skills learned or improved will be planning/estimating, introduction to engineering design, contractor field oversight, AutoCAD, PCA’s CMMS program called TRIDENT, Microsoft Office, working with multi-discipline teams, etc
As a reliability co-op you will be mentored by Area Reliability Engineers as a resource on daily troubleshooting issues
Work on special project assignments with Reliability Engineers
This will teach you responsibility and develop communication skills
You will Focus on predictive and preventive maintenance techniques to improve equipment reliability
Examples are lubrication techniques, optical alignment and vibration analysis
You will learn best practice maintenance and assist in root cause failure analysis process to resolve equipment failures
You will have the opportunity to work a variety of equipment and have the to explore a wide range of working environments
Second and third term students will be assigned additional job duties to further their development
Qualification
Required
Must have completed at least 1 semester as a co-op at PCA
Must be currently enrolled at 4 year university, preferably Mississippi State University, The University of Mississippi, Auburn University, University of Alabama, University of Maine, University of North Carolina State, Texas A&M University, University of Miami Ohio, Tennessee Technology University, or any University of TN and majoring in Mechanical Engineering or a related field and have completed the freshman year
A minimum grade point average of 3.0/4.0 is required
Must be a permanent U.S. resident
Company
Packaging Corporation of America
Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is the fourth largest producer of containerboard and corrugated packaging products in the United It is a sub-organization of vapepackagingboxes.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2000-01-28IPO
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