Cummins Inc Corporate Responsibility Internship

Advertiser: Cummins Inc
Location: Johannesburg

Cummins is a team of dependable, innovative thinkers, who are empowered to generate and deliver solutions for customers, community and environment, and who expect to develop their careers through the challenges only a diverse, Global innovator, can promise.

Every day, people depend on Cummins to do some extraordinary things in some unusual places. Sometimes we're under the hood of a truck. Other times we're using generator exhaust to heat a swimming pool in China. This is a work environment where doing something exceptional and thinking beyond your desk is more than part of the job. It is the job. If you think you've never seen a company like Cummins before, just imagine what it's like to work here.

Advancement with Cummins can take many different and rewarding paths. You may move along a path within one functional discipline or progress along a path that provides experience across a range of functions working with cross-functional teams and rotating to different areas of the company in various positions. Based on performance, business needs and personal interest, employees can cross operating companies, business segments and even geographic boundaries as they advance within our companies.

Responsibilities:
  • Ability to learn, analyze, and understand business and technical processes
  • Ability to communicate effectively (verbal, written, presentation) to all levels of the organization
  • Ability to develop strong relationships with key customers in the business and approach every challenge with a customer-centric view
  • Strong Problem solving and analytical skills
  • Effective team work and multi-tasking skills a must
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership in all tasks executed
  • Demonstrate the ability to be Dependable, Passionate, Caring, Agile, Decisive & Driven to Win
  • Analysis of community needs and development projects
  • Incorporate an understanding of socio-economic issues and cultural diversity within Africa into projects that are being proposed
  • Follow up on project progress status with key stakeholders
  • Analysis of employee engagement rates
  • Administrative support on various projects

Required skills and knowledge:
  • Strong communication skills, written and verbal
  • People skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Team focus
  • Regional Awareness (Africa)
  • Basic understanding of corporate responsibility
  • Keen interest in community work
  • Understand social needs within an African context

Education / Experience:
  • Qualifications in the following fields: Social Work, Socio Economics, Social Sciences or related
  • 0 to 2 years involvement in a community project (preferred)

Reference number: 130000M6

Closing date: Not available at this stage. (Please note: This position is now closed.)

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Definitions:

Internship:

There are basically two types of internships:

  • The Undergraduate Internship: Usually with bigger organisations that pick undergraduates to attend the internship. It often takes places during the holidays and the average durations is a few weeks. In most cases the intern will receive some sort of stipend or salary and this type of internship may lead to a job offer to the intern once he / she is finished with their studies.
  • The Graduate Internship: This type of internship could be paid or unpaid and it is to gain practical work experience after the qualification has been completed and in a job related to the qualification. It could be from a few weeks or even one or two years long. This type of internship could also lead to permanent employment.

Learnerships:

A learnership is an occupational qualification and it consists of theory and work-based experience and practical skills, with formal assessment and a qualification. At the end of the learnership the candidate may be offered permanent employment.

In-service training:

In-service training is to gain practical work experience during studies. It usually takes place after a few years of theory has been successfully completed. It is essential work experience that is part of the qualification and the in-service training is necessary to achieve the qualification. It could be paid or unpaid.