Engineering Intern

• Support cost reduction activities. Lead activities or work on smaller parts of a specific cost reduction project. Develop ideas to generate cost savings as well. • Support productivity and waste reduction activities. • Assist with capital projects; create conceptual drawings, equipment specifications and bid documentation to facilitate a competitive bid environment. Must be able to take a capital project from the quoting stage with vendors, to installing the equipment and having work instructions created for an operator to use that equipment. • Assists in the commissioning of new plant equipment and other systems to ensure that installation into the production facility is handled efficiently and with minimal disruption to production. • Be able to train operators and others to operate and troubleshoot equipment in their respective department(s). • Support Ergonomic improvement activities. Support both short term (safety improvement recordable rate reduction) and long term (capital projects) ergonomic improvement initiatives. • Perform OEE on equipment to reduce downtime, increase throughput and reduce scrap and/or rework. • Participate in and/or lead kaizen events. • Work with maintenance and production to create preventative maintenance plans, operator daily maintenance checklists, and other documentation to properly maintain our equipment. • Support Manufacturing Engineering with all error-proofing (poke-yoke) activities. Ability to learn about PLC's, logic, etc. • Perform time studies as required to ensure standard time and standard cost accuracy in our SAP MRP system. • Assist in the development of new products, processes or systems. • Assist production to develop and maintain the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for production related processes and train operators, lead people, supervisors, and managers as required. • Aid in the design of fixtures, jigs, etc in Solidworks CAD software, as required, to improve production processes. • Support the Quality department with root cause analysis's of scrap product and corrective actions. • Maintain a positive work atmosphere with respect and communicate with others in a professional manner. • Provide technical support for engineering projects using MS Excel and Solidworks. • Additional projects as required