Manufacturing PI&E Intern: Drive OEE & Reliability

Chobani; New York (NY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Chobani invites an intern to join the Performance Improvement and Engineering team in New York. You will gain hands-on experience improving manufacturing performance, equipment reliability, waste, and department efficiency while partnering with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and PI teams to analyze losses and strengthen PM plans.

You will lead measurable improvement projects, build dashboards and automated reports, and present sustainment plans to site leadership, developing executive

Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, organization, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in Excel; Power BI/Power Automate preferred.
• Comfort working on the manufacturing floor and collaborating with operators.

Responsibilities

• Analyze OEE, downtime, waste, PM completion, startup, quality, and labor losses; convert findings into prioritized actions.
• Partner cross-functionally on root cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring equipment and process losses.
• Support PM optimization, PM audits, equipment assessments, rebuild and asset‑restoration plans, critical‑spares reviews, and reliability improvements.
• Support phased autonomous maintenance deployment, including cleaning, inspection, lubrication, defect tagging, visual controls, standard work, and operator ownership.
• Lead or support projects that reduce waste and downtime, improve OEE and reliability, strengthen material flow, or improve labor productivity.
• Complete floor observations, time studies, data collection, equipment evaluations, troubleshooting, and implementation support.
• Build dashboards, automated KPI reports, workflows, and data‑collection tools that reduce manual work and improve data accuracy and decision speed.
• Provide regular updates and a final leadership presentation covering results, financial impact, lessons learned, and sustainment.

Skills

Analytical

Problem solving

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Power Automate

Job description

Chobani invites an intern to join the Performance Improvement and Engineering team in New York. You will gain hands-on experience improving manufacturing performance, equipment reliability, waste, and department efficiency while partnering with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and PI teams to analyze losses and strengthen PM plans.

You will lead measurable improvement projects, build dashboards and automated reports, and present sustainment plans to site leadership, developing executive