This internship position is an opportunity for the Intern/Co-op Student to learn and experience multiple facets of Legrand AV operations in Fairfield, NJ. The position will involve hands-on standard work as well as continuous improvement projects to increase the effectiveness of the organization.
Requirements
- Manage daily MRP exception reports for assigned material/plant combinations
- Understand the inputs of the procurement process including safety stocks, sales orders and production demands
- Gain exposure to the supplier performance review process
- Create a product line forecast using Milestone's statistical models, market influences and sales or product management input
- Generate Average Sales Prices (ASPs) for a given product line and understand how they are used to create an operational financial forecast
- Attend and participate in the monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) consensus review
- Gain an understanding of the company's global sourcing strategy as well as individual commodity strategies
- Visit suppliers in (3) different commodities and gain an understanding of their business and manufacturing processes and how they integrate with Milestone
- Conduct an RFQ for a product or set of products
- Work with Supply Chain Engineers on monitoring customer feedback and internal notifications for high priority issues
- Gain Knowledge on standard problem solving methodology (i.e. PDCA, DMAIC, 8 step A3, 8D, 5Why, Fishbone diagrams, IS/IS Not analysis, Pareto charts, etc.), and assist in facilitating the investigation, disposition, corrective action and preventive action activities
- Learn and conduct the product and process audits, nonconforming material controls and coordinate measurement device calibration
- Learn and assist in creating quality management system documentations such as process maps, procedures and forms
- Learn about supplier quality management, including supplier audits, ongoing performance evaluation, quality review and Kaizen events
- Participate in the development of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Control Plans, and PPAP documents
- Conduct analysis of transactional times and propose improvements for the flow of inbound/outbound Materials, utilizing time studies, value stream mapping and other tools
- Learn Lean practices (ie 5S, value stream mapping, Kanban....) in operational and material flows and how to apply them to the Minnesota Operations Center
- Work with assembly leads and Manufacturing Engineers to redesign assembly work cells by using the listed tools above and applying to fixture and layout installation to increase assembly cell productivity and efficiency
- Gain exposure to Bill of Material structure, routings and build spec sheets and how they interrelate for daily activities and how product development gets introduced, through assembly design to normal day to day activities
- Work with Manufacturing Engineers to trouble shoot issue from daily builds to understand and redesign to have a more efficient process of building finished goods
- Evaluate Primary and Secondary Packaging against proposed specification, recommending improvements to specifications or processes
- Obtaining, compiling and presenting data on existing and alternate packaging materials and processes
- Managing and organizing specification information in appropriate project files
- Organizing product and packaging samples for performance testing and overseeing tests process and methods used
- Root cause analysis and actionable improvements to address product damage due to carrier handling and delivery
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit package
