Industrial Engineering Intern

Wholestone Farms Cooperative Inc • Fremont, NE

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About The Position

The Industrial Engineer Intern is responsible for leading efforts to develop and improve processes, working with operations to implement projects to increase productivity, and providing guidance and expertise in various areas. This role focuses on analysis and project implementation to optimize worker efficiency, yield improvement, waste reduction, and workplace optimization along with accurate cost standards and procedures. The intern will study functional statements, organization charts, and project information to determine functions and responsibilities of workers and work units to identify areas of duplication. Other duties may be assigned as deemed necessary and appropriate.

Requirements

• Minimum of 18 years of age.
• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field from a regionally accredited four-year college or university or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must be able to read, write, speak and understand the language of the majority cultural group in order to communicate effectively.
• Must be able to hear enough to understand those individuals.
• Ability to read, interpret, and comprehend documents such as graphs/flow sheets, financials, general professional articles and publications, governmental regulations, safety rules, assignment sheets, and procedure manuals.
• Must be able to write reports, business correspondence, policies and procedures, and other administrative forms.
• Must be able to effectively communicate in both individual and group settings.
• Must be able to present information and respond to questions from individuals and/or groups.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure such as whole numbers, fractions, percentages, and fractions.
• Ability to compute rate, discounts, ratios, and percent.
• Ability to make, read and interpret financials, graphs, rates, ratios, and percentages.
• Ability to apply common sense and judgment in solving problems and interpreting and understanding instructions furnished in written or oral form.
• Ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action yet reason when to involve supervisor.
• Basic computer knowledge with the ability to learn software.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to prioritize multiple tasks and deal with frequent interruptions.
• Basic office skills such as phone skills, voice mail, copying, faxing, typing, and directing visitors.
• Ability to function independently given assigned duties.
• Ability to communicate, work, and interact with a variety of individuals.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to develop and improve processes, work with operations to implement projects to increase productivity, and provide guidance and expertise in various areas.
• Define, develop, and implement plant continuous improvement projects in all areas of plant operations.
• Focus on analysis and project implementation to optimize worker efficiency, yield improvement, waste reduction, and workplace optimization along with accurate cost standards and procedures.
• Study functional statements, organization charts, and project information to determine functions and responsibilities of workers and work unities to identify areas of duplication.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern