Internship Program
CPI’s goal is to provide the future leaders of agriculture with a fun and educational internship experience. Our internships help the future generation gain valuable knowledge and hands-on experience while exploring career paths at CPI. Students are provided with real life situations that will challenge them to put their education to use.
Requirements:
- Student must be pursuing a degree in a related field
- Student must have completed their sophomore or junior year of academic courses from a university/college OR completed their freshman year of academic courses from a community or trade college
- Student must be in good academic standing
- Student must have a valid US driver’s license and satisfactory MVR (Motor Vehicle Record)
If you’re interested in applying for an internship
with CPI, please send a resume to:
Cyndi Vencill
402-463-5148
cvencill@cpicoop.com
Upcoming Career Fairs
Dates coming soon!
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
September 16th, 2024
12:00–4:00pm
@ East Campus
Fort Hays State University
September 26th, 2024
2:00–4:00pm
@ Memorial Union Ballroom
Northwest Missouri State University
October 2nd, 2024
9:00am–1:00pm
@ Hughes Fieldhouse
Central Community College – Hastings
October 9th, 2024
10:00am–12:00pm
@ TBA
University of Nebraska – Kearney
October 17th, 2024
12:30–3:00pm
@ Health & Sports Center
2025 Summer Internship Opportunities
Accounting Intern
The Accounting Intern will assist the Accounting Department with day-to-day activities. The intern will attain knowledge in purchases and sales contracts, invoicing patrons, product transfers, stock additions/adjustments, reconciliations, and other required transactions. Various projects will be assigned during the internship.
Agronomy Sales Intern
Intern will attain knowledge in the following:
- Develop annual farmer/customer programs that include soil testing, field mapping, product recommendations, timely and accurate application, field monitoring as needed, record keeping, and follow-up calls
- Learn test plot hybrid selection and comparison of these hybrids.
- Hands on opportunities throughout the internship (e.g. utilizing drone technology).
Energy Accounting Intern
The Energy Accounting Intern will assist with a wide variety of energy division accounting/finance activities. This internship is an excellent way to gain practical, firsthand experience in the co-op industry. Various projects will be assigned during the internship.
Data Science Intern
Intern will gain knowledge in the following:
- Using financial and operational data to identify and communicate key business drivers, operational metrics, emerging trends, and other key variables.
- Reviewing and analyzing financial information and providing insights in order to improve business performance.
- Designing reports or visualizations independently or by interpreting the requirements provided and translating them into reports that improve operational efficiency and better decision making.
- Performing a variety of reporting assignments requiring knowledge of an emerging set of capabilities and tools that allow users to extract predictive and prescriptive insights.
- Designing, developing, testing, documenting and implementing reports using SQL and Microsoft tools with a data visualization layer.
- Developing appropriate and meaningful methods of communicating complex financial data in an easy to understand format, including developing reports, dashboards, and presentations for communicating operational and financial results.
Must have knowledge of reporting packages (Business Objects etc.), databases (SQL etc.), programming (XML, Python, R, Power BI, or ETL frameworks).
Multimedia Intern
Intern will gain knowledge in the following:
- Supports the CPI advertising department with various day-to-day activities.
- Completes video production which includes interacting with customers and/or employees while operating portable video and audio equipment to capture footage.
- Plans and performs video post-production tasks which includes reviewing footage, making editorial decisions, audio adjustment, color correction, and final editing. Utilizes computer graphics and special effects for video post-production, compresses video for output, makes video products available in a variety of formats.
- Takes still photography for marketing-related activities, often at short notice.
- Creates regular social media posts and videos.
Must be proficient with various software including Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign as well as Microsoft Office and understand requirements for video production including lighting and sound.
Feed Operations Intern
Intern will gain knowledge in the following:
- Innerworkings of the feed mill
- Feed Orders (weighing ingredients, mixing, bagging, etc.)
- Products we sell including the numerous types of minerals, when and why they are used by producers
- Interact with customers to fulfill their orders
- Load bulk feed
- Complete paperwork on orders.
Grain Origination & Merchandising Intern
Intern will gain knowledge in the following:
- Day-to-day operations and processes
- Buying and selling of commodities
- Daily analysis of local, national, and global markets
- Transportation and logistics (rail and fleet)
- Relationship building with customers
Information Technology (IT) Support Intern
Intern will attain knowledge in the following:
- Offering technical support to users by responding to questions and concerns.
- Troubleshooting common issues and direct clients towards appropriate department if further assistance is needed.
- Troubleshooting applications, computers and printers.
- Identifying problems and guide clients through corrective steps.
- Writing and maintaining documentation in order to improve client references.
Operations Intern
Intern will attain knowledge in the following areas, while gaining leadership experience:
- Various functions of dry/liquid plant (fertilizer plant mixing, loading trucks, reading work orders, etc.)
- Various functions of the scale (grain weighing, probing, bin designation, etc.)
- Various functions of the grain elevator (legs, boot pits, conveyors, housekeeping)
- Shadow additional positions within the coop
Petroleum Operations Analytics Intern
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Precision Agronomy Intern
Intern will attain knowledge in the following:
- Record field data utilizing internal geo-referenced software
- Grid and zone sampling
- Variable rate technology and recommendations
- Develop and increase product knowledge of the sales force, applicators, and management through various learning avenues
- Assist with on-farm trials and research summarize and analyze data, create maps based on collected data, provide seed and fertilizer recommendations based on analysis results, promote company products and services