POSITION TITLE: IS Year-Round Internship

LOCATION:                         General Office, Eau Claire, WI

REPORTS TO:                    Team lead, Manager

TRAVEL REQUIRED:          None

DEPARTMENTS:               

Programming Internships: Point of Sale, Menards.com Systems, Intranet & Labor Scheduling, Midwest Manufacturing, Distribution Center, Information Security, Mobile Technology and Initiatives, Design-it & Desktop Systems, Database Administration

Non-programming Internships: IT Support, Network, Infrastructure Platforms Administration, Quality Assurance

The schedule for this position is flexible and we work with your school schedule! The position requires 15-20 hours per week between 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Developer Internship: provides students a valuable experience with real world applications. Applicants will be involved throughout the entire development life cycle of an application and work on identifying and analyzing any problems with the help of Software Engineer Mentor.

• Knowledge of the JAVA programming language; including JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, Spring, Object Oriented Design
• Familiarity with XML, Eclipse, Android Studio and Visual Studio is helpful

Network Administrator Intern: will assist in the day-to-day administration; support and ongoing enhancement of Menard, Inc.’s network (LAN, WAN, Wireless) infrastructures. Applicants will be responsible for assisting with the tasks of installation of the Physical Plant, configuration and testing of multi-vendor network equipment.  May require traveling to remote offices during the summer.

• Preferred Knowledge: Cisco equipment and Cisco IOS; TCP/IP Protocols, Fast/Gigabit Ethernet network implementation; Router, Switch, and Wireless configuration; Modems, Terminal Servers, Dialup Servers; Security Authentication for Radius and TACACS, HTML, Python, Linus Red Hat or SUSE, Winows,7/10, Android

Infrastructure Platforms Administration Intern: will assist in the day-to-day administration; support and ongoing enhancement of Menard, Inc.’s servers.  Applicants must be able to work in a secure, mission-critical production-computing environment. 

• Preferred Knowledge: Windows, UNIX/Linux based servers, networking protocols, network client connectivity, mixed environments (Unix, Windows), server applications; server hardware, enterprise monitoring and management, and enterprise backup solutions

IT Support Intern: responsible for providing equipment repair assistance to the Menards’s stores. Applicants will assist in troubleshooting, repairing, and preventative maintenance work on the technical equipment; while also gaining great infrastructure technology experience.

• Excellent analytical skills for problem determination and resolution

Quality Assurance Intern: will execute test cases and automated scripts in support of quality assurance processes, application testing, and data analysis of software systems in a combined Unix/Windows environment. This position works closely with Technical Leads, Application Developers and Business Analysts to ensure testing accurately reflects the desired use of the applications.

• Basic understanding of “Blackbox” and “Whitebox” testing
• Experience using IT development technologies, such as MSSQL, MySQL, JavaScript, Java.

Position Requirements:

• Pursuing an Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in an Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Programming, or MIS related field (Candidates must be enrolled in a College/University)
• Must work within normal office hours at the Corporate Office in Eau Claire, WI (remote work is not offered)
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, presently and in the future, without sponsorship