The Industrial Engineering intern will work with the Production and Quality groups to optimize throughput in a variety of operations. Projects will focus on determining capacity constraints and avoiding bottlenecks in the plant.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Candidate will be involved in a variety of projects throughout mixing, conventional, and extruded operations. Project work will be assigned depending on current needs of the plant. Projects or tasks may include but not limited to:

• Assist in creating/updating SOP documents at various operations.
• Help develop the training program for crews in production operations.
• Participate and follow up on EHS, Hazard and Ergonomic Analysis Audits
• Throughput optimization work at the ERH, ASBM and Conventional vulcanizers.
• Assist in short sheet analysis at the Clean Sheet Winders
• Throughput and gauge analysis work at the ERH
• Downtime and changeover time reduction at the slitter and fleece operations.
• Investigate F370 Mixer capacity of white versus black rubber stock.

Qualification:

• Candidate pursuing an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymer Science or Chemistry. Background and an interest in rubber (or plastics) processing & equipment are preferred.
• A minimum of 3.0 GPA required.
• Candidate should have strong written and oral communication skills.
• Candidate should have the ability to work an 8-hour day.
• Candidate should have the ability to use Excel in a capacity to build data analysis spreadsheets and charts.

Additional Information:

This internship is located in the Carlisle, PA EPDM plant. Travel will be minimal.

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled