Manufacturing Advancement & Analytics Intern

Job title: Manufacturing Advancement & Analytics Intern

Job description: Description

INVISTA (Canada) Company’s Kingston Site located in Kingston, Ontario has an opening for a Manufacturing Advancement and Analytics Intern. It is one of the city’s largest employers with over 700 employees dedicated to the production of quality products used in the automotive airbag, carpet fiber, and engineering polymer industries. As part of Global Research and Development Team, you will have the opportunity to leverage INVISTA’s data assets – thousands of sources and billions of records from across our operations – to improve the company’s business performance.

This isn’t your average internship. At Kingston Site we believe employees create exceptional value for our shareholders and customers through high quality products that save and enrich lives. We do this through the strength and capabilities of our people and the application of new ideas and technology. We are looking for motivated and talented people who will help us meet the challenge of leading rapid experimentation, pursuing continuous innovation and creating long-term value for customers and society. INVISTA is an independently managed but wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc, one of the largest privately held companies in the world with a presence in nearly 60 countries. This opening is for a 16-month term, starting May 2022 through August 2023.

To thrive in our Market Based Management® culture, you must show initiative, be results driven, and have excellent communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills. Above all you must ensure that all your activities are carried out with integrity and in a safe and efficient manner.

What You Will Do In Your Role

• Develop hypotheses against prioritized opportunities, design rapid experiments, and embrace the peer challenge process with intellectual honesty to deliver value.
• Collaborate with technical, operations, data scientists, IT, and business resources. Work with a sense of urgency, applying critical and economic thinking to create sustaining value solutions.
• Advance digitization strategies to modernize manufacturing sites and the way R&D performs its daily work. Seek out and apply emerging technologies in business intelligence, autonomous systems, sensors, analytics, and robotics.
• Utilize designed experiments and data analytics to advance site manufacturing processes, new product developments, and other R&D activities.
• Analyze large data sets to generate knowledge systems that present actionable information.
• Document test work through reports and program review presentations.

Candidate Attributes:

• Demonstrates initiative of a Principled Entrepreneur, who challenges the status quo, prioritizes activities based on risk and value, is solution-oriented, and meets deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills, contributing positively in a team-oriented environment
• Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Commitment to ongoing learning and developing new skills
• A willingness to embrace and live the core values of Market Based Management®

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled or recent graduate of a University Engineering degree program.
• Experience coding in a mainstream programming language, such as Python or C.

Do you enjoy discovering a better future state? Are you motivated by seeing the results of your work in the end-product? Do you want to learn more about the INVISTA experience?

Who is INVISTA?

INVISTA is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers, primarily for nylon applications. We deliver exceptional value for our customers through market insights, technological innovations, and a powerful portfolio of global trademarks.

Our Guiding Principles – Integrity, Respect, Humility, Knowledge, Self-actualization, Principled Entrepreneurship, Stewardship & Compliance, and Transformation – define the INVISTA culture. If those words are in your DNA, then please submit your resume via the application link.

Company: Invista

Expected salary:

Location: Kingston, ON

Job date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:45:25 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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