What are the responsibilities and job description for the Intern - Vinyl Manufacturing position at Teknor Apex Company?
When Alfred Fain founded a small Rhode Island tire store in 1924, at the time no one could have predicted how Teknor Apex would become an international custom compounder sought out by companies around the world. After a nearly hundred-year journey that’s carried us through acquisitions and expansion, we now have ten U.S. locations, as well as operations in Belgium, Singapore, Germany, and China.
Throughout this global expansion Teknor has remained a privately held company, and today Fain’s grandson sits at the helm, maintaining the family’s tradition of fostering deep employee and customer relationships. These relationships are what allow us—together—to deliver customized compound solutions and help our customer’s create better products.
“Manufacturing is a team sport and we work together to achieve our goals.” ~Jon Fain, CEO
Join the team behind our custom compounds.
Overview:
As an Intern student in our South Carolina Vinyl Manufacturing facility, located in Fountain Inn, SC, you will develop recommendations for improvements in many areas of production including safety, quality, uptime and product yield. You will be equipped with a basic understanding of the Vinyl Manufacturing operation. You understand the communication between functional areas as well as floor personnel and be able to navigate successfully within a plant environment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Learn the process for Vinyl Manufacturing by observing the functions from the eyes of assigned operators and leads
- Establish start-up rates by line, by product and corresponding ramp-up rates (kg/hr/min) towards target production rate in order to streamline the process, while improving uptime and yield
- Conduct packaging study with focus on developing a project to optimize packaging support labor
- Support Vinyl safety, quality, uptime & yield improvement initiatives
- Assist with writing or updating SOPs
- Aid in investigation of quality complaints or quality incidents, identifying root cause and sustainable solutions to prevent re-occurrence
- Conduct a clean out and change overtime study, identifying new tools and methods to help make the operator’s job easier
- Aid in the conversion of existing batch cards to the new automated blender format
- Conduct end of term presentation to site leadership team
Qualifications
- Ability to work full-time, hourly schedule, Monday- Friday 7:00am to 4:00pm
- Major Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum or Plastic’s Engineering & Mechanical Engineering
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc..)
