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Human Resources Intern

CompanyGreat Northern
LocationAppleton
Work ModeOn Site
PostedSeptember 9, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The intern will coordinate production recruiting efforts, including reviewing applications and conducting interviews. They will also assist the HR team with administrative tasks, onboarding processes, and process improvement initiatives.
Internship Type
full time
Company Size
1081
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
15 hours
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About The Company
Great Northern was founded in 1962 to provide innovative solutions that solved our customers'​ packaging needs. Through the years, this intent has not changed as we added capabilities such as in-store displays and protective packaging products, and facilities throughout the United States. Today, Great Northern exists to live out the core values established by our founders - integrity, personal growth, entrepreneurial spirit, and a shared future. Our vision, "We help our employees win through personal growth and a shared future"​ is a call to action for our team to deliver on building a people-centric culture, developing leaders from within, and sending people home fulfilled about their role and contributions. The "win"​ for everyone is a trusting and collaborative culture that helps us be at our best every day. Our mission statement, "We help our customers win by doing what others can't or won't"​ gives us a clear purpose and raises the bar for performance. Doing what others "can't or won't"​ for our customers is demonstrated by a willingness to serve customers, value-added partnerships and proactively develop innovative solutions to our customer's challenges.
About the Role

Human Resources Intern

Why Great Northern
Established in 1962, Great Northern is a local, privately owned paper-based packaging manufacturer with a long history of providing secure, stable, and meaningful positions.  You will experience a collaborative team-first, safe, clean, enjoyable, and predictable workplace where team members support and care for one another. 
 
Our team members produce sustainable and eco-friendly products that are supplied to national brands that impact people's day-to-day lives. 
 
Great Northern is committed to making a difference in the lives of our team members, customers, and the communities in which we live and work.  Many of our team members were referred by their friends and families who are already a part of the Great Northern team.
 
Position Summary
Responsible for professionally coordinating production recruiting. Maintain a Team First mentality; building team member relations and engagement. Develop relationships to improve recruiting and retention effectiveness and perform a variety of human resource administrative functions.  Demonstrate effective customer service-oriented performance by efficiently and professionally performing the duties of the position in strict adherence with the Company’s Vision Statement and Core Values.  

  • Review applications, set up interviews, conduct interviews
  • Schedule 2nd round interviews
  • Assist the Human Resources team with projects as needed
  • Filing interview notes and related documents
  • Assist with onboarding
  • Participate in process improvement
  • Attend job fairs

Schedule

  • Must be able to work onsite
  • Work a minimum of 15 hours per week
  • Available 3 days a week but can be flexible to accommodate class schedule
  • Must be available January 4 - April 30
  • Business Hours are Monday – Friday 8am-4:30pm (flexibility to accommodate candidate schedules is required)

Expectation

  • To be successful your teammates will depend on you to have pride in your work, be on time, work safely, work effectively with others, be optimistic, take ownership of your responsibilities, and look for continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Attending school for a bachelor’s or associate's degree in human resources or business-related field is preferred
     

Great Northern is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.

Key Skills
RecruitingHuman Resources AdministrationOnboardingCustomer ServiceInterviewingProcess ImprovementTeam CollaborationCommunicationAdministrative SupportRetention Strategies
Categories
Human ResourcesAdministrativeManufacturing