Full time
Atlanta, Georgia
Looking to build connections, careers, and a future at one of North America’s largest food service distributors? Do this and more as a Gordon Food Service Intern at our Atlanta Tech Hub!
Our 12-week paid internship program offers firsthand experience and meaningful projects that have an impact on our business. Throughout the program, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside industry professionals receiving mentorship, professional development, and networking opportunities that will expose you to various aspects of our industry.
Build Connections By:
Working alongside our Data Engineer team that serves our customers, employees, and partners across North America and Canada. Collaborating with other Gordon Food Service interns and employees in the following areas:
Communications
Finance
Accounting
Human Resources
IT
Marketing & Merchandising
Supply Chain
Communications
Build a Career:
In the Data Engineer department by:
Analyzing department processes and other Gordon Food Service (GFS) systems encountered and makes recommendations, improvements, as appropriate. Participates in quality monitoring activities/process improvement activities.
Communicates, collaborates, and acts as a team member with others in order to ensure continuity and coordination of services.
Will learn and use HashiCorp terraform and GCP products used by the team for data engineering – i.e. BigQuery, cloud run, firestore, google cloud storage, cloud scheduler, etc
Will work on various tasks to get hands-on experience with Data Engineering and the Data Platform at GFS.
Will have opportunities for improving data pipelines, automating processes, onboarding new data sources to the data lake, and working with business stakeholders to understand their needs and build solutions towards those needs.
Build the Future by:
Being an intern at Gordon Food Service, North America’s largest family-owned broadline food service distributor and working alongside our department
Attending unique networking opportunities in and outside the office.
Engaging in our mentorship program
Shadowing jobs across the organization to explore your career path
potential
Participating in Gordon Food Services’ community and stewardship efforts
Developing personal and professional skills through workshops about communication, LinkedIn, presenting, and more
Meet the following qualifications to be considered for our 2026 internship program:
Currently enrolled in a university pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Degree
Must be authorized to work in the US.
Must have a 3.0 GPA or higher
Taking advantage of our competitive benefits package including:
Paid Weekly
Flex Hours
Gordon Food Service Store Discount
Employee Assistance Program
Ready to start building? Apply today!
Gordon Food Service values our customers and understands that their success is largely dependent upon their workforce. To demonstrate our commitment to our partnership, we will require any candidate who works for a Gordon Food Service customer to provide a letter of support from their management if they are selected for the interview process.
Gordon Food Service is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment, or in terms or conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf
If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, please submit your request to talent@gfs.com and use the words “Accommodation Request” in your subject line. Please keep in mind this method is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability.
All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco-free.
Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and drug tests all employees.
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