Procurement Jobs in Houston, TX

What this Department does:

The Procurement organization at Tallgrass sources the materials, equipment, and services that keep our energy infrastructure running safely and reliably. The team manages strategic sourcing, supplier qualification and performance, contracting, and the procure-to-pay process in partnership with Operations, Projects, Finance, Legal, and IT. Within Procurement, the Supply Chain Automation (SCA) group leads the organization's adoption of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and automation—building AI agents, personas, and workflows that help our people work faster and smarter. A key focus of this effort is how we communicate: SCA is standardizing the presentations, booklets, and graphical materials the organization produces and helping teams deliver clearer, more consistent, and more persuasive messages to leadership, business partners, and suppliers.

You can expect to:

• Help define and document AI agent personas for communication work—such as a Presentation
• Designer, Booklet Editor, Brand and Style Reviewer, and Data-to-Visual Storyteller—including each persona's purpose, tone, audience, and expected outputs.
• Draft, test, and refine prompts, agent instructions, and reusable skills that guide AI agents toward consistent, high-quality results.
• Help assemble multi-step agentic workflows that take a request from initial brief to outline, first draft, review, revision, and final deliverable, with human review at key checkpoints.
• Test agent outputs for accuracy, clarity, brand alignment, and audience fit; log issues and suggest improvements.
• Use AI agents together with PowerPoint and design tools to help create presentations, booklets, one-pagers, infographics, and process visuals for Procurement and Supply Chain teams.
• Translate procurement data, processes, and policies into clear, easy-to-follow charts, diagrams, and narratives.
• Help build a standardized library of graphical resources—templates, slide layouts, icons, chart styles, and style guidance—aligned with Tallgrass brand standards.
• Review draft presentations and documents and offer constructive input on structure, storytelling, clarity, and visual hierarchy.
• Help create practical communication aids such as checklists, tip sheets, and before-and-after examples, and support a lunch-and-learn or demo session for the team.
• Document agents, workflows, and lessons learned in a shared playbook so the work continues after the internship.
• Follow Company guidelines for responsible AI use, including using approved tools only and protecting confidential, supplier, and personal information.
Present an end-of-internship capstone to Procurement and Supply Chain Automation leadership summarizing what you built, what you learned, and recommendations for next steps.

What you will learn:

• Agentic AI fundamentals—how AI agents, personas, instructions, tools, and multi-step orchestration work together in a real business setting.
• Prompt and workflow design, including how to test, compare, and improve AI-generated results.
• Human-in-the-loop quality review and the responsible, ethical use of AI in a corporate environment.
• Visual design principles and how brand standards and templates create consistency at scale.
• Business storytelling and executive communication—structuring a message around the key takeaway for a specific audience.
• Procurement and supply chain fundamentals in the midstream energy industry.
• Professional presentation skills through regular demos and a capstone presentation to leadership.

What you will bring:

Education:

Student actively enrolled in a degreed program and attending classes related to Communications, Graphic or Visual Design, Marketing, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field, with expected graduation date of December 2026 - May 2028.

Experience/Specific Knowledge:

• Collaborate with a wide variety of people with tact, courtesy, and professionalism.
• Maintain a high regard for personal safety, for the safety of company assets and employees, and the general public.
• Basic familiarity with generative AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) and how to write clear prompts.
• Working proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Exposure to at least one design tool (e.g., Canva, Adobe Express or Creative Cloud, or Figma) through coursework, projects, or personal work.
Clear written and verbal communication; able to simplify complex ideas for different audiences.

What makes you stand out:

• A portfolio of presentations, booklets, infographics, or other design work.
• Exposure to AI agent builders or low-code automation tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power
• Automate, custom GPTs, Cursor, or similar).
• Basic familiarity with Python, JSON, or Markdown.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI.
• Strong curiosity, eagerness to learn, and openness to giving and receiving feedback.
• A visual eye and attention to detail in layout, formatting, and consistency.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) is a plus.

What else you need to know:

Our internships are temporary full-time positions, in-person/hybrid at our Houston office. We will host our Summer 2027 interns from May-August for 10 weeks.

Compensation And Other Benefits

• Pay Range $20.90- $35.15 USD Hourly

• The final pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and working location. The total compensation package for this role may also include paid time off; a housing stipend; and more.