YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Chemical Engineer Intern, are:

• Maintaining the production schedule via working with production planning and other engineering units 
• Statistical monitoring of production metrics and identification, definition, and cost analysis of improvement projects.
• Provide technical support along with other engineers to troubleshoot and solve problems impacting raw material yields, capacity, quality, environmental compliance, and safety.
• Help identify cost savings and on-stream time improvements by tracking key performance indicators (KPI's).
• Monitor and analyze operating data from the manufacturing process using statistical tools, both proactively (statistical quality/process control) and reactively (troubleshooting).
• Project engineering and management includes scope, plan and schedule, detailed design, cost estimating and tracking, construction and startup.
• Create and maintain process, safety, and environmental documentation, including process flow diagrams, operating instructions, management of change (MOC) forms, etc.
• Exhibit a strong safety ethic through coaching or engineered improvements.
• Assist manufacturing leadership in identifying improvements related to raw material yields, capacity, energy, quality, product safety and the environment.
• Support preventative maintenance and equipment reliability programs and other plant wide initiatives.
• Communicate closely with and train, as needed, area operations personnel.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

REQUIRED SKILLS

 • Willing to accept a variable work schedule

 • Students must be currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program in Chemical Engineering and have completed their sophomore year by the start of their co-op or internship.

 •Students must return to school upon completion of their term with Bayer to continue their program of study

 • In addition to current enrollment interns must work at the Soda Springs Idaho site for the duration of the term

 o January - June of 2020 OR

 o May - August of 2020 OR

 o June - December of 2020

DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale

Prior Co-op or internship experience is a plus

Training or coursework in Six Sigma principles; six sigma belts

Delta V configuration experience

Experience or training in project definition, design, process control and optimization, and statistics

MS Excel macro deve