Engineering Intern- Fall of 2026

IKO North America•Chester, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you! This list is not meant to be a complete comprehensive list of everything that the intern will be involved with but instead a general list of some of the process development work that will go into building the operational structure for this new greenfield mat plant.

Requirements

Preferably a Junior or Senior in college or recent graduate with some type of technical degree.
Ability to create documents and procedures.
Very organized with electric filing of these documents.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
Critical thinking skills.
High degree of organization are a must.
Must be able to stand and walk frequently.
Effective planning, prioritizing and time management skills.
Excellent team player.
Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

Maintain the Operational Readiness Plan in Microsoft Project, adding tasks to the file as they are given to the intern, and updating the file when a status occurs.
Developing a wide variety of operating procedures and programs for a greenfield plant site, using examples from other sister plants within IKO.
Creating Standard operator work instructions.
Creating Operator and Maintenance training documentation.
Creating Lock-Out-Tag-Out policies and procedures and other safety type initiatives.
Creating Plant policies and procedures.
Creating Preventive Maintenance documents.
Creating 5S inspection audits.
Behaving continuously and consistently with the IKO Core Values; Sharing Knowledge, Integrity, Long-Term thinking, Performance, Humility, and Agility.
All other duties as assigned.