Store Environment plays an important role in bringing Harbor Freight’s merchandising strategy to life in our stores. The team helps shape how products, categories, fixtures, signage, and space come together to create an intuitive, productive, and consistent experience for our customers and store associates.

Harbor Freight’s Store Environment Internship Program gives college students and recent graduates hands-on experience supporting the strategy, development, and execution of the physical retail environment. During this 10-week program, interns will work alongside Store Environment leaders and cross-functional partners while contributing to projects that address real business opportunities. This approach aligns with the structure of Harbor Freight’s Merchandising Internship Program, which emphasizes meaningful project ownership, cross-functional exposure, mentorship, and a capstone project.

Depending on the assignment, interns may help analyze store and space performance, support merchandising and presentation strategies, participate in store tests, assist with fixture and signage initiatives, support new stores and remodels, coordinate project activities, or identify opportunities to improve the customer and associate experience. Interns will gain exposure to multiple disciplines within Store Environment, including Space Planning, Project Management, Floor Planning, Visual Merchandising, store execution, and cross-functional retail operations.

Store Environment Interns will experience a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and receive continuous coaching and mentorship throughout the program. Interns will have opportunities to collaborate with leaders and partners across the organization, develop their analytical and problem-solving skills, and contribute meaningful work from day one.

Duties and Responsibilities

Partner with Store Environment leaders to analyze business opportunities using sales performance, space productivity, product information, customer insights, store feedback, and other data to develop recommendations that improve the in-store experience and business results
Support Store Environment projects from concept through implementation, helping develop project plans, organize milestones, coordinate meetings, track decisions and action items, identify risks, and support successful store execution.
Support space and merchandising strategies by evaluating product placement, adjacencies, facings, space allocation, planogram performance, and store-specific needs to identify opportunities to improve productivity and the customer shopping experience.
Assist with the development and implementation of fixtures, signage, displays, and other Store Environment elements, helping evaluate solutions that improve product presentation, space utilization, execution, and consistency across the store fleet.
Collaborate cross-functionally with teams including Merchandising, Store Operations, Inventory, Marketing, Real Estate, Construction, Creative, Procurement, Supply Chain, and other business partners to support Store Environment initiatives and ensure solutions are executable in stores.
Support new store openings, remodels, refreshes, product launches, and other store initiatives by assisting with planning, documentation, coordination, store-specific requirements, and execution readiness.
Support Store Environment testing and continuous improvement initiatives by helping establish objectives, collect and organize results, review store photos, surveys and field feedback, and summarize learnings and recommendations for future implementation.
Gain exposure to retail floor planning activities by assisting with selected store layout updates, fixture placement, planogram-to-fixture assignments, store-specific conditions, and floor plan validation to better understand how Store Environment strategies translate into executable store layouts
Develop and present a capstone project to senior leadership focused on a real Store Environment opportunity identified with the intern's direct leadership team, including analysis, recommendations, and potential next steps.
Other duties as assigned by management

Scope

Staff supervision and development: Yes
Decision making:
Limited
Travel: Up to 5%
Flex Designation: Local

The anticipated rate for this position is $33.00 per hour depending on location, knowledge, skills, education and experience. Associates can accrue paid sick time up to 64 hours per year unless otherwise required by law. The Company observes 100 hours of paid holiday time.

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