LandMark Implement Summer Internship
Make your ‘MARK’ Internship
Potential for Two-Year Internship Program
Partnership, Trust, Commitment, Value and Quality are the foundation in which we conduct business daily, and we are excited to welcome new interns and potential future employees that follow and believe in these standards. LandMark Implement offers internship opportunities across Central Nebraska and Northern Kansas in parts, marketing, agriculture sales, precision agriculture, information technology and more. Read more about our program below and how an internship with LandMark Implement can help you explore a career in the agricultural field. Join us to experience the LandMark Difference!
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Program Overview:
LandMark Implement has an internship program designed to give potential employees an opportunity to learn the culture of LandMark while providing solutions to our organization and our customers who serve in the agriculture industry. Interns will spend time working in our various departments to get an understanding of how we approach providing solutions to our customers. Each year LandMark’s Leadership will identify a Make your ‘MARK’ challenge that we need help solving and at end of program each intern will share their creativity in a presentation with LandMark Leadership. Successful individuals will be invited to apply for a second-year internship where they will get an even further in-depth view of the company. Individuals invited to return for a second year will receive a $1000 scholarship. Scholarships will be a check paid directly to the college upon receipt of upcoming class registration. Interns will be paid per hour with a regulated 40-hour work week.
Application Process:
Applications will be taken online at www.landmarkimp.com. Please be sure to answer all the questions on the application and remember to submit a resume and two letters of reference. Interviews for selected applicants will take place in December with notification of those selected by mid-December. Interns must be available for Mandatory onboarding on May 20, 2022.
Eligibility:
All college students in their second year of a two-year degree or students in their sophomore year of a four-year degree, with the desire to work in agriculture in the equipment industry with opportunities in: sales, parts, service, information technology, marketing & precision ag. Interns will be selected by an application process, including 2 letters of recommendation, and an essay supporting their interest in a career in the agricultural field and must show they are in good academic standing with their college.
Intern Schedule
Day 1 Mandatory Orientation:
- Meet and greet with Intern team
- Intro to LandMark Leadership
- LandMark Implement Overview
- Review Planning Workbooks (meet with supervisor, discuss intern expectations and meet with mentor, if applicable)
- Review the Make your ‘MARK’ challenge
- Team building event
Spend a week with each department:
Location visits, department shadows and job shadows
Parts Department
- Receiving stock inventory and stocking parts in appropriate locations/bins
- Delivering parts to service / technicians for shop work
- Understanding of showroom displays and parts marketing
- Learn how to look up and find parts
- Shadow parts professional at counter
- Understand complexity of ordering equipment for stock inventory
Service Department
- Shop walk through: understanding of how repairs are conducted, estimating costs of repairs, and providing customer shop quotes, value of OEM parts and service
- Shadow service manager to understand shop efficiency, work in progress reports, etc
- Equipment walk-arounds to better understand a couple key products we sell
CTS Department
- Training on our technology department with JDLink, Customer Technical Specialist (CTS) role and LandMark certified training program
- Soil probes
- Installation of units
Sales Department
- Attend location and/or corporate wide sales meeting
- Sales overview and develop understanding of our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool
- Shadow Regional Sales Manager and sales professionals (Ag, CAD, CCE)
- Complete location inventory and understand equipment displays and arranging equipment on lot
- Looking up equipment, building new equipment orders and ordering in stock inventory
- Updating photos on MFPro for used equipment sales
Business Administration
- Marketing and Advertising overview
- Human Resources overview
- Accounting overview
Ongoing:
- Check points with supervisor and mentor
- Weekly reports of progress turned in (using Planning Workbooks)
- Begin brainstorming and work on LandMark Make your ‘MARK’ challenge
- Business Day
- Community Service Challenge
Final project presentation:
Throughout the internship, LandMark will host team building events. These events will include training around professionalism, individual goal setting and assessment and time management.
At end of the program, interns will have 30 minutes to present to LandMark Leadership their Make your ‘MARK’ proposal.