Mass communications intern lands Mack’s Top Dog Award

A typical mass communications internship tends to be in marketing or some type of media; but not for Andrew Fox, who took a different route this past summer with Mack Trucks, Inc.

Fox, a Bloomsburg University senior, didn’t build trucks either. Instead he spent his internship writing scripts, shot lists, filming, editing, producing and directing small films for training and operational purposes in the company’s training department.

“I created six training and standard operating procedures (S.O.P.) combined, three of which are up to win a Top Dog Award, an award Mack gives to employees who have helped the company grow and move forward for the better,” Fox stated. “The three that are up for the award are my ‘Pedestrian Forklift Safety,’ ‘HERCA,’ which stands for Human Error Root Cause Analysis and then my ‘Multi Fill Process’ videos.”

This fall, Fox received word he won the Top Dog Award for Continuous Improvement.

“It’s an award given to employees who have the best “Kaizen” form, Japanese for moving forward,” Fox said. “This Kaizen form helps improve the company in some way by saving money, preventing injury, making things more efficient and so on. So along with the video I created, I filled out a Kaizen with it because it helped make the company more efficient.”

In addition to creating award worthy films, he had the opportunity to learn more about the corporate side of company operations.

“I never worked in a corporate environment before, and it took some time to get use to,” Fox said. “The training department understood that it was a change, but they knew and I knew I was capable of excelling in a corporate environment. After about a week or two I was adjusted and learned and grew and now am ready for any corporate environment I come in contact with.”

Mack Truck International will not be the end of Fox’s corporate experience. After his May graduation, Fox aspires to work for a television advertising company in which he will often encounter corporate entities.

“I really want to help create or write a commercial that would be used for the company,” Fox said. “To be able to see my work on TV would be pretty cool as well.”