Production Development Engineering Intern; Co-op), Winter

About Clutch:

We’re on a mission to reinvent the way people buy, sell, and own cars. Are you game?

Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car buying and selling experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that’s just the beginning. Named to The Globe and Mail’s list of Canada’s Top Growing Companies for six consecutive yearsand also awarded spots on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ lists, we’re looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including D1 Capital, Altos Ventures, BMO Capital Partners, Canaan, Real Ventures, and others. To learn more, visit  .

What you'll work on

On an assembly line, every unit is the same. In our reconditioning facility, no two cars are the same. One car needs brakes and a detail; the next needs suspension work, bodywork and a part we have to order. Building standard work, staffing models and layouts around that kind of variation is the engineering problem you'll be working on.

As a Production Development Engineering Intern, you'll own one main project, start to finish, and support one or two smaller ones. You'll agree on the main project and its target with your manager by the end of week two. Projects we expect to have this term include:

• Standardized work. Time-study a process within our production areas (Inspection, Mechanical, or Detail). Separate the steps that add value from the ones that don't, and write the standard work the process runs on.
• Finding the bottleneck. Use our production data to map cycle time and wait time across the stations, find where cars sit longest, and test a fix on the floor.
• QC and rework. Break down why cars fail QC or come back for rework, pick the top causes, and work with mechanics and leads on a change we can measure before your term ends.
• Layout. Redesign a bay or work area in CAD and make the case for it with data.
• Capital project support. Help scope an equipment or facility project: gather vendor quotes and track timeline and budget.
• Present. You will have an opportunity to present your achievements to the executive team at the end of your co-op.

What your term looks like

• Weeks 1 to 2:
  Learn the floor. Safety training, time at every station, and shadowing mechanics and production leads. You'll finish with a one-page project plan: the problem, the baseline number, and the target.
• Weeks 3 to 8:
  Measure. Collect data, run your studies, and share what you're finding at a mid-term review with engineering.
• Weeks 9 to 14:
  Change something. Pilot your recommendation on the floor with the team, and measure whether it worked.
• Weeks 15 to 16:
  Hand it off. Present results to engineering and production leadership, and document your work so the team keeps using it after you leave.

What you'll get

• A weekly 1:1 with the Director of Engineering, and a buddy on the team for day-to-day questions.
• Lean tools used for real (time studies, standard work, 5S, value stream mapping) in an operation where the input changes with every car.
• A view of the whole business, from the day we buy a car to the day a customer takes delivery.
• Gain hands-on experience delivering measurable improvements and building tangible project outcomes you can showcase in your engineering career.
• Strong performers will be considered for future co-op terms…