Lean Production Intern: Process Optimization & KPIs

Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC (Charleston, SC); Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee phone

Health measures

Employee discounts

Employee events

Parking

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC (MBV Charleston) in Charleston, South Carolina, is offering an Assembly Intern position reporting to the Assembly Manager. You will support factory planning, engineering tasks, and help ensure the ongoing plant expansion runs smoothly.

The role involves assisting with Trim, Chassis, End-of-Line, Quality Assurance, process documentation, KPI dashboards, time studies, and collaboration with plant operations.

Qualifications

• Having graduated within the past 12 months or currently working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Business or relevant degree is required to participate in the intern program.

Responsibilities

• Assist areas such as Trim, Chassis, End-of-Line or Quality Assurance in Production
• Process documentation
• Feasibility analysis of optimization projects
• Optimize daily processes with new ideas
• Overview and updated, detailed schedule
• Coordinate project steps with plant operations
• Read and interpret drawings when needed
• Assist and lead meetings
• Taking meeting minutes and KPI editing
• Process optimization of production line processes
• Improve quality transparency by creating dashboards
• Time studies and analysis of bottlenecks
• Process analysis and process improvement ideas and implementation
• Project planning using Microsoft planner
• Time studies and poke yoke implementations
• Assist where needed by the department or other areas

Skills

Information Systems

Lean manufacturing

OEE & KPIs

Communication & presentation

Process optimization

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Business or related field

Recent graduate or current student in Engineering/Business

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Job description

Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC (MBV Charleston) in Charleston, South Carolina, is offering an Assembly Intern position reporting to the Assembly Manager. You will support factory planning, engineering tasks, and help ensure the ongoing plant expansion runs smoothly.

The role involves assisting with Trim, Chassis, End-of-Line, Quality Assurance, process documentation, KPI dashboards, time studies, and collaboration with plant operations.