Process Engineering Intern

Fuyao Glass America Inc•Moraine, OH

3h•Onsite

About The Position

The Process Engineering Intern position is primarily responsible for assisting with the development of new materials (60%), automation development (10%), process improvement and troubleshooting (25%), and documentation compilation and update (5%). This role requires an interest in industrial engineering and strong communication skills. The intern will be involved in developing and testing new materials, including inks, silver paste, screens, cutting wheels, and drills, by compiling process requirements, evaluating suppliers, conducting lab and production tests, comparing materials, and documenting usage. They will also assist in managing automation projects such as quality inspection and laser marking systems, which involves compiling requirements, evaluating suppliers, comparing proposals, and tracking project progress. Furthermore, the intern will contribute to organizing process improvement initiatives and troubleshooting technical issues in production, facilitating meetings, and collaborating with engineers and production teams. Finally, a key part of the role is compiling and updating various documents like work instructions, process requirements, process reports, and new material standards.

Requirements

Languages spoken commonly in the workplace are English and/or Mandarin.
Ability to read, understand and comprehend documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Ability to speak effectively and interact with other team members, engineers, leadership and customers.
More than one year of experience in the related production processes and technologies.
Achieved or enrolled with bachelor’s degree program within STEM areas.
The employee is regularly required to stand for long periods.
Duties include turning at the waist, reaching, bending, squatting and lifting up to 50 pounds.
Ability to pass static strength requirements (grip).
Visual acuity including: NEAR ACUITY - Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less; FAR ACUITY - Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more; DEPTH PERCEPTION - Three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships; COLOR VISION - Ability to identify and distinguish colors; FIELD OF VISION - Observing an area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables.
Knowledge of and familiarity manufacturing software.
Be acquainted with the glass production processes.
Be acquainted with the IATF16949 quality system.
Be the master of the professional skills of material development.
Be the master of relevant material standards.
Be the master of the flow of material verification and development.
Abilities of communication and coordination.
Ability of organization.
Strong awareness of initiative study and ability of study.
A certificate of continuous improvement of the green belt level or above.
IATF16949 TRAINING.
Training about the five reference books.

Nice To Haves

Those with manufacturing experience are preferred

Responsibilities

Help to develop and test new materials including but not limit to ink, silver paste, screen, cutting wheel, drill etc.
Assist with the compilation of new materials process requirements according to internal standard and customer standard.
Ask for potential materials supplier list from purchasing, contact several most promising suppliers for more technical details.
Ask supplier come onsite with new material samples. Test materials samples in lab first. If it pass the lab test, take them to do production test. Complete process experiment report after each test.
Make comparision between these materials from US supplier and the materials that are utilized in Chinese plant. Choose the best materials for Fuyao Glass America by the performance and cost.
Compile documentation for using and storing materials and provide training to plant.
Track using condition of materials during production. Improve contiunuesly to make materials better.
Assist with management of automation projects such as trademark quality inspection, drilling hole inspection, transparency inspection and component assembly inspection, primer inspection and laser marking system.
Compile process requirements for automation system according to internal standard and customer standard.
Ask for potential automation supplier list from purchasing, contact several most promising suppliers for more technical details.
Ask supplier come onsite to evaluate project. Compare all proposals and designs from different supplier.
Discuss with project team to double check all detail requirements before purchasing issue PO.
Make project plan and track project progress.
Compile documentation for automation system and provide training to plant.
Contribute towards the organization of process improvement and do troubleshooting for process issues.
Organize the production process team to improve the production process for satisfying the Fuyao internal standard and customer standard in both quality and quantity.
Facilitate the process meetings to discuss the technical issues that occur during production. Communicate and work with the related process engineers and production team to solve the technical issues. For example: bad screen printing quality due to electrostatic, raw glass corrosion.
Compile and update documents including but not limit to work instruction, process requirement, process report and new materials standard.
Compile work instruction for new production lines or new products. Update work instruction when current process change or new process is added into production.
Determine process requirements for materials, automation and other projects.
Complete process report after new materials test, automation evaluation, new process verification etc.
Compile materials standard to make sure exist and new materials neet internal standard and customer standard.