PROCESS ENGINEER INTERN

Socket.dev; Muscatine (IA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Internship

Paid Housing

Community Events

Family-Owned

Job summary

Kent Worldwide™ in Muscatine, IA is offering a Process Engineer Intern role for Summer 2026 at their new Cat Litter facility. This paid internship includes housing and community events.

You will assist the Technical and Operations teams to improve production efficiency, learn process flows, and support safety and documentation efforts. Housing and travel support may be provided as part of the internship.

Qualifications

• Majoring in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering preferred.
• Completion of 2 or more semesters in Engineering.
• Interest and general understanding of lean manufacturing principles.
• Proficiency with analytical tools, workflow time study, and process balancing.
• Internship or co-op experience in an operations or manufacturing environment strongly desired.
• Computer literacy.
• Understand, create, and update process flows, including documentation and standard operating procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assist Technical team in increasing production, assess capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
• Work directly with operations team in troubleshooting and resolving process issues.
• Ability to learn process flows and production specifications to help drive production efficiencies.
• Monitors operations data and assists in corrective actions to drive operational excellence.
• Helps develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets.
• Identify opportunities to prevent waste and inefficiency in production.
• Ability to learn and create required manufacturing process documentation, including process flow charts, capacity and utilization studies, time and motion studies, standard work, cycle time analysis and line balancing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gain insight and direction.
• Ensures compliance with health and safety laws, regulations, and guidelines, including EPA and OSHA requirements.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Analytical tools

Time study

Process balancing

Documentation

Computer literacy

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Mechanical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Engineering coursework (2+ semesters)

Job description

Looking to join a six-time US Best Managed Company award winner? KENT WORLDWIDE™ has a fantastic opportunity to join their team as a Process Engineer Intern working in our NEW Cat Litter facility for the summer of 2026!

~ Paid Internship ~ Paid Housing ~ Community Events ~ Family-Owned ~ Great Experience

• This position is designed and intended to be performed in Muscatine, IA.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist Technical team in increasing production, assess capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards
• Work directly with operations team in troubleshooting and resolving process issues
• Ability to learn process flows and production specifications to help drive production efficiencies
• Monitors operations data and assists in corrective actions to drive operational excellence
• Helps develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets
• Identify opportunities to prevent waste and inefficiency in production
• Ability to learn and create required manufacturing process documentation, including process flow charts, capacity and utilization studies, time and motion studies, standard work, cycle time analysis and line balancing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gain insight and direction
• Ensures compliance with health and safety laws, regulations, and guidelines, including EPA and OSHA requirements

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Majoring in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering preferred
• Completion of 2 or more semesters in Engineering
• Interest and general understanding of lean manufacturing principles
• Proficiency with analytical tools, workflow time study, and process balancing
• Internship or co-op experience in an operations or manufacturing environment strongly desired
• Computer literacy
• Understand, create, and update process flows, including documentation and standard operating procedures

TRAVEL:

• Up to 10% travel for meetings or training may be required.

OTHER:

• Must be able to lift 32-pound bags of litter on an infrequent basis