Red Wing Shoe Company is based in Red Wing, Minnesota, just 40 minutes from St. Paul, where our corporate office sits along the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing. We are a global company with 2300 employees around the world, but we maintain a close-knit family atmosphere that comes with being a privately-held company. We're rich in history and tradition, but innovation drives us to deliver best-in-class product solutions and highly rated customer experiences. Focus on our employees and company culture results in meaningful employee engagement across the organization. Our Guiding Behaviors of Living our Values, Honoring our Brands, Inspiring our People, Centering on our Customers, and Preserving the long term success and legacy of our Company are the foundation on which we build our future.

Red Wing Shoe Company is excited to announce our 2025 Internship Program! The program is designed to offer you meaningful work that will prepare you for your career. You’ll get to see first-hand how our corporate teams develop strategies and practices that support our retail and manufacturing partners, and customers worldwide.

This position will offer a hybrid work structure. You will need to live within commutable distance to Red Wing, MN as you’ll be working on site 1-2 days per week (on average). Standard work hours for this position are Monday-Thursday 8am-4:30pm, Friday 8am-1pm.

Compensation is $25/hr.

What to Expect:

Our Human Resources team will have two interns who will collaborate on key corporate initiatives within our Supply Chain function, improving the employee experience, identifying training & development needs, optimizing HR workflows and driving digital transformation.

As an HRBP & Org Effectiveness Intern, you will:

• Assess Learning Needs: Collaborate with HR Business Partners, Org Effectiveness, and Supply Chain teams to define goals, design surveys, and collect insights to identify training and development needs.
• Analyze and Interpret Data: Compile and analyze survey results and feedback to uncover performance gaps and organizational challenges, including potential focus groups or interviews.
• Develop & Deliver Solutions: Collaborate with the Org Effectiveness team and Supply Chain HRBPs to prioritize critical training needs, propose actionable strategies, and present tailored recommendations aligned with organizational goals to cross-functional leadership.

As an HRBP & HR Shared Services Intern, you will:

• Enhance Onboarding Experiences: Collaborate with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and HR Shared Services on projects that elevate the candidate and new hire experience across our Supply Chain sites.
• Streamline HR Collaboration: Support value stream mapping to optimize workflows between HR Business Partners and Shared Services.
• Drive Digital Transformation: Assist in digitalizing employee files and pre-employment paperwork to improve efficiency.

In addition to the projects you’ll be assigned within your department, the 2025 intern cohort will work together on a group project, solving a real world problem we’re facing at Red Wing Shoe Company. Over the course of the summer, you’ll meet for a few hours each week with your cohort to gather insights, conduct research, and form a recommendation which will be presented to our leadership team at the conclusion of the program.

We’re looking for students who meet the following requirements:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Education, Instructional Design, or Business Administration
• Enrolling as a Sophomore, Junior or Senior in the 2025-2026 academic year

Red Wing Shoes is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
Individuals with disabilities needing assistance in completing an application may contact [email protected] or call 651-388-8211.

Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP at https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm

All offers of employment are contingent on satisfactory results of a background check.

Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)