Continuous Improvement Intern

Blount Fine Foods Corp.; Fall River (MA); Hybrid; USD 26,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Blount Fine Foods Corp. in Fall River, MA is offering a Fall Semester Internship designed to connect classroom concepts with real-world operations. The Continuous Improvement Intern will support cross-functional teams to identify, analyze, and implement process improvements across production.

This paid internship emphasizes feedback, supervision, and networking opportunities. The role requires strong data and math skills, good communication, and familiarity with Microsoft Office.

Qualifications

• Degree (B.A.) candidate from College or University or related experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally in English.
• Ability to apply basic math, fractions, decimals and interpret graphs.
• Ability to follow instructions and solve simple problems.
• Competent with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with CI Engineer on planning, coordination, and analysis of CI projects.
• Provide current state data and proposals for continuous improvement.
• Supply ongoing data on production processes.
• Support process improvement initiatives to reduce waste and increase efficiency.
• Assist manufacturing initiatives to improve safety, cycle times, and on-time delivery.
• Handle other duties with similar scope as assigned.

Skills

Communication skills

Math/computation ability

English written and verbal

Education

BA candidate

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Description

Internship Program:

Blount’s Internship Program aims to raise students from our community in a way that is mutually beneficial by providing experiential learning opportunities and connecting concepts learned in the classroom to real-world applications to contribute to the professional readiness of tomorrow’s workforce. Interns can expect timely feedback, accessible supervisors, bi-weekly meetings with the internship program lead, assistance with career readiness, and networking opportunities.

This is a Fall Semester Internship!

The pay range for this position is $19.00 to $20.00 per hour.

Summary:

The Continuous Improvement Intern will play a vital role in supporting our organization's commitment to operational excellence and efficiency. As an intern in this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, analyze, and implement process improvements across various departments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with CI Engineer on the planning, coordination, control, and analysis of overall CI projects, including net weight and downtime analysis.
• Provide current state data and proposals for continuous improvement.
• Provide ongoing data on all selected production processes.
• Key responsibilities include support process improvement initiatives that would include process experimentation, process design, process optimization, process control, and process definition and documentation to reduce waste to achieve continuous improvement.
• Will support manufacturing initiatives to improve safety, reduce cycle times, improve productivity, create, and find capacity, improve process reliability, and improve customer satisfaction with respect to on time delivery, yields, and quality.
• Other responsibilities with similar skill, work conditions, and responsibilities as assigned.

Experience/Education:

• Degree (B.A.) candidate from College or University or related experience; or equivalent combination of both education and experience.Level II: the ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally in English as it pertains to individual position.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office software, competent with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.