Southwest Careers
Explore Your Career Path
Bring your experience, curiosity, and ambition. Find opportunities to build skills in sales, operations, leadership, and logistics.
Find your place
Own your impact.
Grow with the industry.
Explore opportunities at every career stage: students, recent graduates, experienced professionals, and people changing industries. Program requirements and openings vary by role and location.
Operations & Leadership
Learn to run a business through management trainee opportunities and leadership development. Explore operations and CED's Management Training Program. Build skills in sales, purchasing, inventory, customer service, and team leadership, with a path toward Profit Center Manager opportunities.
- Operations and purchasing
- Management development
- Profit Center Manager career paths
Paid Internships & Careers After College
Explore entry-level careers, recent graduate jobs, and business graduate careers that turn classroom learning into practical business experience. Explore CED's paid college internships, Management Training Program, and Sales Training Program through our Southwest teams. Learn how customer service, technical sales, purchasing, inventory, and local business operations work together.
Program availability and requirements vary. Tell us your location and interests so we can discuss the right fit.
Paid College Internships
Explore business internships and sales internships with hands-on experience while you are still in college. Ask about summer internships and other schedules at your preferred location. Explore customer service, technical sales, and business operations with our Southwest teams. Tell us your school, major, preferred location, and availability. Internship openings vary by location.
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B2B Sales & Technical Sales
Build business-to-business sales relationships with solar installers and contractors. Learn technical sales for solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and clean energy products through consultative selling, relationship building, and project coordination that help customers solve project challenges.
- Inside sales and customer service
- Outside sales and account management
- Technical solar sales and project support
Warehouse & Logistics
Keep products moving and projects on track. Explore supply chain careers and distribution operations. Support receiving, inventory management, order fulfillment, and deliveries with a focus on safety and accuracy.
- Warehouse and order fulfillment
- Delivery and driver opportunities
- Inventory and logistics support
Training for your next step
CED’s programs help students, recent graduates, experienced professionals, and people changing careers build skills in sales, customer relationships, and business operations. Paid internships are designed for students; sales and management training opportunities have role-specific education, experience, and relocation requirements. Review the current job descriptions to find the right fit.