Intern - Supply Chain Management

Position Overview:

The SLAC Supply Chain Management (SCM) provides effective and efficient procurement, shipping/receiving, property control, and compliance services to the Lab while sustaining the highest level of stewardship. Critical to delivering on these responsibilities is our ability to effectively and efficiently understand our data to ensure we are tracking against Department of Energy benchmarks, our Prime Contract and Federal Acquisition Regulation.

The SCM Intern will primarily assist SCM in reconciling or removing open commitments for goods and services. The SCM intern will gain an understanding of the impact of encumbrance in accounting and the connection between the Purchase Order and the General Ledger.

Additionally, the position may involve varying projects which involve transaction processing, database support and development, business intelligence and analytics, and various other ad hoc administrative duties.

Your specific responsibilities include:

• Assist with reconciling and removing open commitments
• Analyze data and create and update reports for a variety of projects.
• Assist in processing purchase orders.
• Perform other miscellaneous duties assigned by the supervisor.

Opportunities and Benefits:

• Great resume builder for someone seeking practical experience in supply chain management.
• Opportunity to become more closely connected to the Stanford/SLAC community.
• Opportunity to learn about SLAC and exposure to the work environment in a research and user facility.

Note: This is an hourly, non-benefits eligible temporary-nonexempt summer student position (work at 50% full-time equivalent or less), not to exceed 980 hours in six consecutive months Eligible applicants must be at least 18 years of age, currently enrolled in an educational program or recently graduated, and have US work authorization

To be successful in this position you will bring:

• Some college level course work in business administration, accounting, finance, policy, or management information systems.
• Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to multi-task and complete assignments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact with other department and laboratory personnel.
• Possess basic understanding of business processes and accounting fundamentals.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others and provide excellent service to customers in a professional, respectful manner.
• Demonstrated ability to research, reach out to others to gather information, and come up with solutions/suggestions for problem solving.
• Demonstrated ability to perform work accurately.
• Demonstrated skill with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.

SLAC Employee Competencies:

• Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner.
• Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing.
• Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes.
• Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward.
• Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs, maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes.
• Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, presented messages.
• Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve common goals.

Physical requirements and Working conditions:

• Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.

Work standards:

• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for environment, safety and security; communicates related concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Meets the applicable roles and responsibilities as described in the ESH Manual, Chapter 1¿General Policy and Responsibilities:
Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide,

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• Classification Title: SLAC Intern Students [Level II]
• Job code: 0901
• Employment Duration: 14 weeks

The expected pay range for this position is $24.26 - $26.25 per hour. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.