Manufacturing Planning & Analytics Intern

AK Steel Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleveland-Cliffs in Butler, PA invites students and new graduates to join its internship/co-op program in manufacturing planning. As an intern, you will build production schedules to support customer delivery, work with Sales and Operations, and gain hands-on experience with Excel and SQL Server Management Studio.

This role emphasizes data analysis, reporting, and forecasting, with opportunities to automate Excel workflows and contribute to delivery improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Enrollment in Bachelor of Science program in Supply Chain, Business, or another Business-related field.
• Completion of sophomore year of study by the summer of 2027.

Responsibilities

• Building production schedules to support customer delivery expectations.
• Management of WIP inventories.
• Work closely with Sales, Operations management, and accounting in planning/scheduling of operating units and expediting of customer orders.
• Utilize Microsoft Excel and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to find, retrieve, filter, and validate data.
• Populate and issue standard daily/weekly/monthly reporting.
• Provide analysis from various aspects of the operation that can take extreme detail, and create a story with themes that clearly show issues and required actions.
• Support the monthly and annual production forecast planning process.
• Automate work currently done manually in Excel and utilize the task scheduler application to maintain existing automated reports.
• Support the company-wide delivery improvement initiative.
• Various other duties as needed to support the business.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Job description

Cleveland-Cliffs in Butler, PA invites students and new graduates to join its internship/co-op program in manufacturing planning. As an intern, you will build production schedules to support customer delivery, work with Sales and Operations, and gain hands-on experience with Excel and SQL Server Management Studio.

This role emphasizes data analysis, reporting, and forecasting, with opportunities to automate Excel workflows and contribute to delivery improvement initiatives.