Year-Round Continuous Improvement Intern

Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader

New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, FORVIA anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you're willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow's cleaner and smarter mobility, FORVIA is the place to be.

Our Seating Division is looking for a Continuous Improvement Intern for its manufacturing facility in Madison, Mississippi.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

The main missions of the role are:

* Follow up with plant on FES deployment plan, to support the Plant Improvement Plan (PIP) execution.

* Provide FES knowledge and skills to the plant team through training, coaching and education.

* Contribute to the Plant MOD cost budget construction & achievement, through efficient "MOD cost management" & "MOD cost improvement plan."

* Ensure efficient data management methodology is correctly applied for direct standard and actual labor cost accuracy.

* Ensure DLE/DLP tracking process linked with the DL cost % results

* Support the implementation of FES improvement tools for production reliability, change over standards (flexibility), reduction of Line stoppages, Line balancing and overall MOD efficiency.

* Ensure identification of MOD "Productivity Potential).

* Contribute to the lead reduction through the implementation of continuous flow, layout optimization and pull-system changes.

* Support FES network in the plant

* Contribute to the deployment of FES culture at Supervisor & GAP Leader level

* Propose and promote best practices within the Plant (FES Network)

* Participate in workshops to test the new lean concepts

* Other responsibilities:

* Ensure full respect of HSE rules and regulations.

* Ensure respect for the environment and secure internal control of the plant.

* Commitment to the highest ethical standards and willingness to promote and adhere to Faurecia's code of ethics and code of management.

* Support and follow Being Faurecia values and convictions.

* Position Authority:

* Update monthly reporting of the facility's FES score and deployment of tools pushed by the business group.

* Lead the production teams to greater efficiency and success through corrective coaching daily.

* Make updates and changes to standard work and cycle times in our master data list.

* Assist with any additional tasks as assigned by the company.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Minimum education level:
Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering or related field.

Experience:

* Experience in an industrial environment (ideally in the automotive industry)

* Proficient level in English

Skills and competencies:

* Knowledge of lean manufacturing principles

* Ability to handle a fast-paced environment

* Excellent oral and written communication skills

* Strong interpersonal and presentation skills

* Positive attitude and optimistic mindset

* Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suits (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, etc.)

* Cultivate innovation comes up with useful ideas that are new, better, or unique

* Manage ambiguity deals comfortably with the uncertainty of change, effectively handles risk, can decide and act without the full picture, is calm and productive, even when things are up in the air, deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes.

* Manage complexity asks the right questions to accurately analyze the situations, acquires data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems, uncovers root causes to difficult problems, evaluates pros and cons, risks, and benefits of different solution options.

* Customer focus gains insight into customer needs, identifies opportunities that benefit the customer, builds, and delivers solutions that meet customer expectations, establishes, and maintains effective customer relationships.

* Drives results has a strong bottom-line orientation, persists in accomplishing objectives despite obstacles and setbacks, has a track record of exceeding goals successfully, pushes self and helps others achieve results.

* Optimize work processes identifies and creates the processes necessary to get work done, separates and combines activities into efficient workflow, designs processes and procedures that allow managing from a distance, seeks ways to improve processes, from small tweaks to complete reengineering.

* Learning agility learns quickly when facing new situations, experiments to find new solutions, takes on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, extracts lessons learned from failures and mistakes.

* Political savvy is sensitive to how people and organization function, anticipates land mines and plans approach accordingly, deals comfortably with organizational politics, knows who has power, respect, and influence, steers through the organizational maze to get things done.

* Demonstrate self-awareness reflects on activities and…