Industrial Engineering Intern — Lean & Process Improvement

Corning Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing assistance

Travel assistance

Job summary

Corning is seeking a Summer Internship in Industrial Engineering at its Painted Post, NY site. You will apply Lean and industrial engineering methods to improve product and information flow, reduce inventory, and increase capacity while supporting cost reduction initiatives.

The role offers hands-on project work, data analysis, and opportunities to present findings to engineering and manufacturing teams. Enrollment in an Industrial Engineering program is required.

Qualifications

• Candidate is enrolled in an Industrial Engineering degree program.
• Interest in applying industrial engineering skills, including capacity analysis, cost modeling, facility layout development, logistics, process simulation model development, implementation and analysis.
• Interest in applying Lean manufacturing concepts and principles, including cycle time reduction, manufacturing / business processes, Value Stream Mapping, line balance/staffing, work cell design, quick change over.

Responsibilities

• Engage with manufacturing or innovation teams to understand workflow, problems to solve, current state, and feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Apply industrial engineering analysis to deliver results including observing and understanding production workflow (process flows, spaghetti maps and data collection), capacity analysis, material utilization, space utilization, Lean manufacturing, and DMAIC methodology.
• Complete observations and data analysis, write summaries and conclusions and make recommendations based upon the outcome of the observations and analysis.
• Present the results to the engineering and manufacturing teams.
• Use engineer principles and data to solve problems, including production issues.
• Ensure standard methodologies are communicated, evaluated, and implemented.
• Develop and execute project plans; including requirements, deliverables, resources, timing and risks.
• Identify areas of potential productivity improvement; generate ideas and recommend systems, programs and projects.
• Communicate ideas and project status clearly and professionally through graphic and written media, and oral presentations. Provide necessary documentation of activities, results, assignments.
• Responsible for the accuracy of work performed; take a can-do approach to ensure quality of work.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Data analysis

Industrial engineering

Process improvement

Statistical skills

Education

Industrial Engineering degree program

Tools

Excel

Statistical software

Job description

Corning is seeking a Summer Internship in Industrial Engineering at its Painted Post, NY site. You will apply Lean and industrial engineering methods to improve product and information flow, reduce inventory, and increase capacity while supporting cost reduction initiatives.

The role offers hands-on project work, data analysis, and opportunities to present findings to engineering and manufacturing teams. Enrollment in an Industrial Engineering program is required.