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Benjamin Ruohoniemi

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Benjamin, a Cabinetmaking and Wook Technology major, interned at Lezzer Lumber this summer.

Lezzer Lumber is a building supply materials company, one of the 50 largest retailers of its kind in the U.S.

How did you find out about your internship?

I learned about the opportunity at Lezzer Lumber through the College Central Network, a job-posting site Thaddeus Stevens College maintains, in February of last school year.

What does your day-to-day look like at the internship?

I clock in at 6:30 a.m. and connect with the shop foreman on what I will be managing for the day. Throughout each day I will either have several small jobs to work on or a few larger ones. I clock out at 3 p.m. with mostly everyone who works in the millwork shop.

What is something you were surprised to learn in your time as an intern?

What I found most surprising was how fast we could get jobs done. I guess I didn’t truly realize how fast jobs went when I was in my first year of the Cabinetmaking program.

What has been something challenging about your internship?

Getting enough sleep at night and adjusting to the schedule was a challenge for me.

What has been the best part about your internship experience?

The community of everyone working together at Lezzer Lumber was the best part of my internship experience!

Tell me a story about something that happened one day as part of your time as an intern?

One day I went with another employee who works on CAD and reviewed a house that needed some porch renovations. A van had driven up off the road as it tried to around a car and damaged the corner of the porch. A column broke off and the porch floor had been damaged, along with the roof now sagging. We measured how much flooring we needed to replace and the railing and columns that needed to be replaced as well.

Would you recommend seeking out an internship to other students at Thaddeus Stevens College?

I would recommend to other students to work in their respective fields in an internship as it gives real world experience, and you also make more at a technical skills internship than you might make elsewhere.

How do you think this experience will help you for your future?

This experience will help when I look for jobs in the future and employers see this on my resume. It will help me with having more experience for when I actually step into the field.

Kathryn Zimmerman Internship

Kathryn Zimmerman internship

Kathryn, a Graphic Communications and Printing Technology major, interned at Grafika Print this summer.

Grafika is an award-winning, multi-dimensional print provider of consumer paperboard packaging and labeling/product identification. The business features convention and UV offset, flexo, digital and screen printing.

How did you find out about Grafika?

I learned about the company when I went to a student night there with my class for a tour of the company.

What does your day-to-day look like at the internship?

Every day I help run the feeder of an offset press. I move large skids of paper and prep them to be printed on, adjust the feeder head while the machine is running to make sure it runs smoothly, put ink into units, clean ink out, and help wherever they need me.

What is something you were surprised to learn in your time as an intern?

I was surprised to learn about the amazing technology of the press. It can run 20,000 sheets in an hour, there is a camera that takes a picture of every single sheet as it is printed to automatically make slight adjustments to the ink density, and conveyor belts are used on both sides of the press to put blank skids in and remove printed skids without the press ever stopping.

What has been something challenging about your internship?

It has been challenging to learn all the detailed information on how the press runs and remember the steps to take when something needs to be fixed.

What’s been the best thing about your internship experience?

I have really enjoyed the entire experience and being able to work alongside very knowledgeable, experienced pressmen has helped me learn so much.

Tell us about a story of something that happened in your internship.

One time soon after I started, a sheet had gotten folded on its way into the press, and it ended up smashing all the blankets, so I got to learn how to change all the blankets with the operator.

Would you recommend seeking out an internship to other students at TSCT?

I would definitely recommend seeking out an internship to other students at TSCT because it gives you so much real-world knowledge that you may not learn in the classroom, and it gives you a connection to a company that you may want to work at once you graduate.

How do you think this experience will help you in the future?

This experience gave me an opportunity to learn more about my field and it will help me find a job whether I stay at Grafika or use my experience to get a job somewhere else.

 

 

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