Continuous Improvement - Intern

Functional Area:  * FLX - Flex Staff
Career Stream:  FLEX STAFF
Role:  N/A
SAP Short Name:  STI
Job Title:  Student Intern IL
Job Code:  STI-FLX-IL
Job Level:  Band 0
Profile-Holding:  N
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

The Continuous Improvement Internship provides students with the opportunity to apply academic knowledge and skills in a professional environment, and to promote the graduate's career goals through contact with professionals in their field of study. Provide support and implementation of sustainable successful lean manufacturing methods that will accomplish operational excellence.  Participate in kaizen events, project activities, and meet operational efficiency goals.  Provide ideas to learn Kaizen tools to support a Lean Enterprise culture throughout the organization, focusing on waste elimination, cost reduction and process improvements. 

• Be encouraged and expected to innovate and be creative in your problem solving and presentation of solutions
• Work with a mentor to facilitate and cultivate a Continuous Improvement culture by developing awareness of lean manufacturing concepts and tools, to achieve or exceed safety, quality, cost and delivery goals. 
• Develop your skills by learning from and working with collaborative team members
• Assist with training other employees Continuous Improvement content.
• Participate in engagement and discovery sessions between the Continuous Improvement team and employees from functional/business units in order to identify problems/gaps and process improvement opportunities
• Collects, organizes, and analyzes data related to business processes, procedures and controls including root cause analysis on identified challenges
• Practice lean methodology tools with cross-functional teams.
• Assist in developing measurable standards at the start of a project, and then compare actual project results against these to support business objectives with financial performance.
• Documents core operational processes, creating detailed process maps and associated materials for basic current and future state processes
• Support the Tier system for the facility and track the CODE Celestica Operational Dashboard Elements
• This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of this position.

• Currently enrolled in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or similar degree program at an accredited institution, entering junior or senior year, or recent graduate
• Familiarity with Excel (pivot tables, pivot charts, functions, etc.) and Process Mapping tools - e.g. Visio and Microsoft suite or similar software
• Some knowledge of: standardization, Continuous Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, SMED, 5S, Visual Management, Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Flow/Cell Design
• Highly motivated individual that can work with minimal supervision.
• Able to build relationships, interact and influence others.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to manage time wisely, handle multiple, and conflicting priorities. 
• Good communication skills: organized, speak, listen, and write well; hold presentations, facilitate meetings and trainings, and create reports
• Experience with data analysis and process mappings (beneficial)

AbelConn is ISO 9001, ISO 13485, AS 9100 registered, Nadcap Accredited, NASA-STD-8739 and all job duties are to be performed to support the business in meeting all requirements and documented instructions.

AbelConn is a US ITAR facility and positions with AbelConn involve the release of export controlled goods either directly to employees or through the employee's movement within the facility. As such, AbelConn will require necessary information from all applicants upon an applicant's acceptance of employment to determine if any export control exemptions or licenses must be filed. 

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change.