Summer 2023 Corporate Security Intern | PenFed Credit Union

Corporate Security Intern - Summer 2023
Locations: McLean, Virginia
Category: Internship
Req ID: 9460

Overview
Are you looking for an educational and robust summer internship? Are you interested in spending your summer near the Nation’s Capital? If so, please apply for PenFed’s Summer College Internship! Our paid, ten-week intern experience will take place from May 30th to August 4th, 2023.
 
We are seeking a Corporate Security Undergraduate Student Intern at our location in Tysons, Virginia. PenFed’s Internship Program offers college students with a meaningful internship experience from which they can make informed future career decisions.  Our internships are meant to provide a great test drive of our company, industry, and a potential career field.  Interns are fully integrated into our business departments across the entire enterprise and assigned to impactful projects, solving real business problems faced by our company.  Each intern is assigned a hiring manager and a mentor. In addition to the work our interns do within their respective departments, our interns will work together on a collaborative project. 
  The PenFed Summer College Internship Program is a competitive, ten-week program that provides college students with hands-on business education, and skills development. The program includes professional development, personality assessments, executive presentations and interaction, team building events, volunteerism, career readiness training, mentoring, and meaningful work related to desired career paths.

Responsibilities

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
• Learn to apply analytical and critical thinking skills based on department objectives
• Security management projects relating to CCTV maintenance, or collaborate with vendors to replace systems as needed
• Utilize access control system to assign and adjust employee access to various sites
• Collaborate with security team to ensure proper protocol and procedure are always followed
• Participate in collaborative group project with internship cohort

Qualifications

• Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
• Currently enrolled full-time at an accredited institution studying: Physical Security, Criminal Justice, Emergency Management (or closely related degree program)
• Must be a rising Junior with at least 60 college credits completed prior to June 2023
• Must have strong Excel and PowerPoint knowledge
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Must have creative, analytical, and critical thinking skills
• Must have a competitive GPA/demonstrate a strong work ethic
• Must provide copies of your unofficial transcript with initial application and official copies before internship start date (if selected)
• Must be able to work for PenFed during the entire summer program timeframe
• Strongly encouraged to not take college courses during summer program timeframe
• Veterans encouraged to apply