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Engineering Intern
Department: Maintenance/Engineering Corporate
Location: Carol Stream, IL
Type: Internship
Location: Carol Stream, IL
Type: Internship
Duration: May 20th - Mid August
Assist the Engineering and Maintenance with major CapEx projects and manage small CapEx projects with supervision. Work with Maintenance and CI with requests directly impacting production quality and throughput. Assist the Quality and Production teams as necessary by ensuring the facility is kept audit ready, maintaining a customer focus and addressing facility requests as needed.
The internship position will focus on organization and multitasking skills that will require addressing various projects and requests as quickly as possible. This internship will cover a wide scope in responsibilities from major CapEx installations to light maintenance requests such as light bulb changes, painting, and cubicle orientated requests
Duties would include, but not be limited to the following:
- Assist and implement Capital Expenditure (CapEx) projects from conceptual design to installation and startup for new production processes and manufacturing equipment, facility infrastructure and utility systems
- Provide leadership and lead teams involved in project execution including internal engineering, maintenance and external contractors
- Support manufacturing with process evaluation and productivity improvement projects.
- Manage small capital projects from design through installation and start-up.
- Travel from site to site; inspect facilities, buildings, and grounds for routine maintenance; prioritize repairs and renovations.
- Assist the Maintenance & Engineering team to manage and coordinate work with 3rd party vendors including recommend continuous quality improvement practices
Duties would include, but not be limited to the following: (cont.)
- Handle installation of furniture, equipment and supplies (weighing of different options, price comparisons)
- Coordinate and/or assist with special events, set up, tear down.
- Follow up with internal customers to ensure customer satisfaction, build relationships with fellow employees.
- Assist with site inspections (related to fire department, build outs, etc.)
Expected outcome of internship:
For the interns benefit, the internship will develop critical skills in the field of engineering such as multitasking, organization and transparent communication.
Internally there will be short term and long term benefits. Short term, the engineering and maintenance teams will have much need help in implementing and executing capex projects and preparing for upcoming 2024 summer audits. Long term benefits we would grow the intern, ideally, to join the team after graduation.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with a focus on safety and quality. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
- Minimum of 2 full years of college course completed, preferably 3 years. Currently full time engineering student at accredited College or University studying engineering with preferred study focus on industrial, chemical or mechanical engineering.
Language Skills:
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to vendors and other employees of the organization.
Mathematical Skills:
- Must be proficient in Excel including data analytics in numeric and graphical forms. Completion of 2 semesters of engineering mathematics is the minimum requirements.
Qualifications: (cont.)
Reasoning Ability:
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Apply basic engineering problem solving techniques to improve manufacturing efficiencies. Focus on cost/benefit analysis to determine best solutions.
Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to use a keyboard, calculator, and telephone. Frequent sitting, talking, hearing, and occasionally stand, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, lift (50 lbs.), and ability to adjust vision for close vision work. Occasional exposure to airborne dust, high humidity, and extremes of hot and cold are possible. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work Environment:
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
