Finishing Processes Engineering Intern - Houston - Vallourec

PROJECTS
Support process improvement initiatives, working on:

• Process improvement projects – focusing on Cost, Health and Safety, and Performance.
• Technical benchmarking with Vallourec’s experts
• Knowledge management

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Finishing Processes Engineer Intern will be part of the North America Finishing Competence Center team and will be involved in day-to-day activities to gain as much experience as possible. Intern will discover all aspects of a technical expert function, encouraged to bring new ideas and be mainly responsible for:

• Participating, or managing, process improvement projects:
  
  • Reducing the Cost of a cutting Process, involving to design and conduct trials, validating solutions, and training operational teams.
  • Improving the Health and Safety conditions of our mills through the qualification of alternatives paints used in our Finishing lines – understanding the risks, working with suppliers, testing the solutions in the plant, and validating the solutions.
  • Impact the Performance of a Finishing line – reducing the stoppages of a key process thanks to problem analysis, solution finding through benchmark and exchanges with experts.
• Benchmarking with expert – building a network with existing experts of Vallourec around the globe, discussions technical options for your projects, and sharing results/outputs.
• Knowledge Management – aggregate and make available the technical knowledge about Finishing process – develop analysis skills, as well as synthetic thinking.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
To be successful in this internship, you should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Must be interested in project management – autonomous, well organized, skilled in transverse communication.
• Capable to design and conduct trials on the shop floor, as well as to exchange/learn from our skilled operators/tech specialists.
• Skilled in building and entertaining a network.
• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in mechanical or chemical Engineering.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.