How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
The co-op will take part in a 3-rotation program which will leverage their capabilities and talents from learnings through school including extracurriculars to support Delta Air Lines logistics operation within Inflight, On-Board Service. The co-op will provide support through leveraging various tools from Microsoft Excel, Python, AI enables systems (and others) for performing analytics that assist in driving transformative practices. Additionally, the role will support teams through process re-engineering efforts, progressing projects that enhance inventory management, and identifying new opportunities for how the organization should operate by means of new technologies, techniques, and best practices. The co-op will have an opportunity to apply both soft and technical skills while building up their professionalism / business acumen from mentorships with several Delta professionals.
Key Responsibilities & Considerations
- Respond to data requests from teams that provide operational insight to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness
- Build data models with functional owners that fit with a business situation aimed to project cost implications, optimize inventory balances, and demonstrate efficiency gains from process improvement efforts
- Develop reports alongside leaders to highlight financial and impacts to inventory procedures from changes in operating models or operating decisions made by management teams
- Work with datasets to help stand-up data foundations to enable AI capabilities for the Materials & Logistics organization
- Help manage reports (financial, inventory, transportation, etc.) that the business requests and needs maintained
- Provide findings and recommendations associated with projects that the co-op is tasked with to give leadership insight of relevance and value
- Assist in mapping team processes and system interactions to recommend (and in some instances create) automation to create greater working efficiency
- Support testing associated with different types of system enhancements or implementations for ensuring functionality is working as expected prior to initiation
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Strong standing within an accredited undergraduate College, University, or Institution by demonstrating aptitude in completing coursework and extracurricular involvement
- Working towards completing a bachelor’s degree in Business / Engineering / Data Science
- Must commit to a 3-rotation program with Delta Air Lines (e.g., Fall`26 / Summer `27 / Spring`28)
- Must have completed 30 credit hours of course-work
- Coursework for any classes taken during rotation must be completed outside of the mandatory 8 working hours occurring Monday through Friday (schedule set by assigned manager)
- Can effectively manage time and stay organized to complete workloads and assignments
- Must be able to take direction and operate autonomously to complete tasks
- Needs to communicate clearly for articulating information to support requests and project deliverables
- Should bring positive energy to the workplace and take initiative to ensure requests / project outcomes deliver intended value to Delta Air Lines
- Must be comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-moving business environment
- Can utilize business standard programs effectively (e.g., Microsoft: Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Demonstrated interest in working for Delta Air Lines
- Understanding of supply chain management, inventory management concepts
- Prior experience working in an environment with having to handle inventory (retail, warehousing, grocery, restaurant, etc.)
- Extracurricular Involvement in Relevant Social or Scholastic Clubs
- Can demonstrate a desire for continuous learning and provide examples of methods actively being used to keep growing knowledge base outside of curriculum requirements
- Strong mathematical and technological skills
- Experience presenting outcomes to groups with vested interest in results
- Relevant Degrees:
- Supply Chain Management / Logistics
- Industrial [& Systems] Engineering
- Business Analytics
- Tools and Capabilities:
- Experience using any of the following coding languages / tools to complete tasks:
- Python / SQL / R
- AWS / SAS / SQL Server
- Arena / Simeo
- Tableau / Power BI
- Visual Studio / Kiro / Red Hat
- GitLab / GitHub
- Knowledge and usage of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT / Claude / Grok / Gemini, etc.) including the ability to structure and create prompts
- Ability to speak clearly about projects and situations within which you employed any of these tools
