Engineering Intern: Manufacturing & Process Improvement

Yamaha Motor Corporation; Deerfield Beach, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 19,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Bennett Marine, part of the Yamaha family, seeks an Engineering Intern to support the engineering team in Deerfield Beach, FL. You will uphold safety regulations while evaluating processes to guarantee product quality and recommend improvements to production methods.

Responsibilities include cost reduction support, productivity improvement, capital project assistance, operator training, and documentation development using SolidWorks and MS Office.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent qualification.
• Be enrolled in accredited engineering program or related study.
• Demonstrated application of engineering skills and problem-solving techniques.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills with applied experience working in a cross functional team environment.
• Ability to create technical documentation with computer applications such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Assist in the commissioning of new plant equipment and other systems to ensure that installation into the production facility is handled efficiently.
• Be able to train operators and others to operate and troubleshoot equipment in their respective department(s).
• Support Ergonomic improvement activities including safety improvements and capital projects.
• 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 and SOPs.
• Support Manufacturing Engineering with all error-proofing (poke-yoke) activities. Learn about PLCs, logic, etc.
• Perform time studies 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 SOPs and train operators, lead people, supervisors, and managers.
• Aid in the design of fixtures and jigs in SolidWorks CAD software, as required.

Skills

Engineering skills

Problem solving

Cross-functional teamwork

Interpersonal communication

Technical documentation

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

SolidWorks CAD

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

Bennett Marine, part of the Yamaha family, seeks an Engineering Intern to support the engineering team in Deerfield Beach, FL. You will uphold safety regulations while evaluating processes to guarantee product quality and recommend improvements to production methods.

Responsibilities include cost reduction support, productivity improvement, capital project assistance, operator training, and documentation development using SolidWorks and MS Office.