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ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Finance internships and career path will help you gain essential finance, analytical and leadership development skills.

Areas of Focus

• Manufacturing Controller Finance - Containerboard Mills and Converting Box Plants
• Corporate Finance - Audit; Corporate Accounting; Credit; Data Analytics; FP&A; Finance Operations; Investor Relations; Procure to Pay; Record to Account' tax and Treasury

Finance Career

The FORUM Program is designed to help you develop the skills and knowledge of our innovative finance processes by:

• Focusing on leadership, development, service and fellowship
• Enabling you to gain exposure to various departments, businesses, and experiences
• Providing networking opportunities with peers and senior leaders
• Equipping early career professionals with tools and a blended learning approach to help you plan your career path

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Fiber Supply internships and career path will help you advance IP’s commitment to sustainability through responsible sourcing, supplier management and inventory planning for fiber raw materials.

Opportunities within Fiber Supply

• Sustainability and Fiber Certification; Fiber Quality; Finance and Operations; Safety

Fiber Supply Career

The Fiber Supply Associate (FSA) Development Matrix helps you grow the skills you need to successfully take on a wide range of responsibilities in Fiber Supply.

• Build and maintain supplier relationships
• Negotiate and procure fiber, including timber, chips, fiber fuel and recovered fiber for our mill partners
• Learn inventory management
• Develop professional skills, including negotiations, leadership fundamentals and lean manufacturing tools
• Develop and support improvement projects for safety and corporate initiatives
• Ensure environmental compliance through the use of ForSite and BMP Compliance Checks

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ HR internships and career path will help you gain on-the-job experience performing a critical role in employee and labor relations, recruiting and developing employees.

Areas of Focus

• Labor and Employee Relations; Training and Development; Employee Engagement; Recruitment; HR Processes

Human Resources Career

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ HR Development Program is designed to develop future HR leaders by:

• Enhancing managerial and functional skill sets
• Increasing your understanding of the company’s businesses, markets, key customers and long-term strategies
• Giving you well-defined responsibilities, deliverables and projects
• Fostering an environment that encourages diversity of thought and experience
• Nurturing your ability to have an impact on the entire employee experience
• Providing opportunities to interact with colleagues across the U.S. through an annual conference and other events

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Information Technology internships and career path will help you build technical and leadership skills through our IT experience program and deliver innovative solutions supporting global business processes.

Areas of Focus

• Application Development roles are responsible for providing technical application solutions that enable IP to do business every day. Activities include consulting, technical design, development, unit testing, sustain and continuous improvement.
• Business/Functional roles work to align processes and technologies to enhance business strategies.
• Systems/Technical roles are found in a wide range of sustain-and-support services departments, covering areas like Help Desk Support, Hardware and Software Support, Data Center Operations and many other key service areas.

Information Technology Career

• ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Collegiate Onboarding and Rotational Experience (CORE) Program is designed to provide college graduates with a series of experiences that will help prepare you to be a future leader in Information Technology.

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Manufacturing Analytics internships and careers will help you collaboratively drive best practices, innovations and processes and advance IP's operational excellence.

Areas of Focus

• Equipment Health; Process Health; Process Analytical Services; Equipment Reliability (Mechanical); Process Optimization in a Pulp/Paper mill, Machine Learning; Predictive Modeling

Program Highlights

• Work with other data scientists to create analytical tools to assist the mills with making quicker and better data-based decisions
• Use Braincube, Power BI and other tools to develop models and insightful metrics and visuals
• Utilize Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to assist with root cause and failure analysis (RCFA).
• Visit mills and other IP facilities

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Manufacturing internships and career path will help you collaborate, build technical and leadership competencies, and network with peers and subject matter experts, while adding value in a manufacturing engineering role.

Areas of Focus

• Manufacturing Excellence; Process, Reliability, Project Engineering; Process Control; Environment, Health & Safety, and Data Analytics Tools

Program Highlights:

• Earn Lean Six Sigma White Belt
• On-the-job training and online learning courses
• Precision maintenance

Manufacturing Career: Participants in ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s Early Career Manufacturing initiative are typically degreed or experienced engineers (or related STEM professionals) who have started their career within the last five years.

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Packaging Design internships and career path will help you build the experience necessary to implement the IP Think the Customer engagement strategy.

Career Paths

• Structural or Graphic Designer; Lead Designer (Local or National); Design Manager

Program Highlights

• Leveraging hands-on development at a manufacturing facility or design center
• Providing opportunities to contribute to innovative packaging solutions through optimization and design collaboration

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Sales internships and career path will help you collaborate with customers to tailor and deliver the renewable solutions they need to make their business successful.

Areas of Focus

• Local Sales; Customer Service; National Accounts

Program Highlights

• Use Gantt charts to keep track of meeting deadlines for customers
• Recover chargebacks in Payee Central
• Survey customers to compile data for process improvements
• Use OBA Tracking to assist customers with tracking production and warehousing
• Research prospective customers

Sales Career

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Associate Development Program is designed to help college recruits gain experience in sales through:

• A structured approach through hands-on exposure to the manufacturing and commercial processes
• Project work designed to develop professional, technical and leadership skills
• Opportunities to network and engage with senior leaders

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Supply Chain Internships and Career path will help you gain supply chain perspective by working transportation, logistics, distribution planning, customer service procurement, sourcing and more.

Program Highlights

• Earn Lean Six Sigma White Belt
• Network with IP supply chain and company leaders
• Peer mentor assigned to you, on-the-job shadowing and classroom training
• Site visits to our World Headquarters and manufacturing locations
• Analytical and presentation skills development

Supply Chain Career

• Participate in face-to-face and virtual training events
• Visit IP manufacturing facilities to see our supply chain in action
• Network with supply chain leaders from across the company