Undergraduate Intern

Arcosa Careers • Steele, AL

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About The Position

Meyer Utility Structures is seeking an undergraduate intern for its Gadsden, Alabama facility. The intern will analyze performance data to identify improvement opportunities and support continuous improvement projects to improve plant quality, efficiency, and safety. The role partners with plant personnel to apply continuous improvement methodologies and follows up to measure and sustain Lean activities.

Meyer Utility Structures is an industry leader in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications. The company states that it is committed to providing reliable structures, superior service, and product solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in progress in an engineering-related or manufacturing technical field.
• Knowledge and experience in the candidate's discipline, while continuing to acquire higher-level knowledge and skills.
• Ability to apply standard principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
• Ability to build knowledge of the organization, its processes, and its customers.
• Ability to solve straightforward problems and analyze possible solutions using standard procedures.
• Ability to work with a moderate level of guidance and direction.

Nice To Haves

• Focus or experience in Operational Excellence, DMAIC, and Lean tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze performance data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Assist with continuous improvement projects to improve quality, efficiency, and safety performance throughout the plant.
• Partner with plant personnel in the use of continuous improvement methodologies and follow up to measure and sustain Lean activities.
• Assist the plant in achieving maximum performance.
• Support Operational Excellence and continuous improvement throughout the organization using Lean Six Sigma principles.
• Partner with plant personnel on improvement opportunities.
• Participate in Kaizen Lean practices and principles.
• Assist with troubleshooting manufacturing, quality, and assembly issues using data analysis.
• Define, refine, and improve manufacturing processes and procedures, develop new processes, create process documentation, and support product design for manufacturability and assembly.
• Support capacity, efficiency, and floor-design improvements, production processing, and problem solving.
• Assist in designing, installing, and debugging tooling and capital equipment.
• Work with the team to manage capital expenditures (CAPEX) for equipment.
• Handle other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Associate degree