Company Overview

Bennett Marine is a worldwide leader in innovative product development and manufacturing in the marine industry. The company developed the trim tab as a product to improve the handling, stability, and fuel economy of power boats. We have been in business since 1960. In 2017, Bennett became part of the Yamaha family, joining Yamaha Marine Systems Company. As part of YMSC, Bennett will help provide solutions to integrate boating for a less hassle & more enjoyable boating experience. We believe this will help fulfill Yamaha’s vision of Creating a lifetime of exciting and memorable experiences!

Bennett Marine has an excellent opportunity for an Engineering Intern to join our Engineering team. As the Engineering Intern, you will uphold the safety regulations of our company while evaluating different operations processes to guarantee that all our products meet quality expectations. The chosen candidate will perform regular process evaluations and recommend improvements to production processes.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Support cost reduction activities. Lead activities or work on smaller parts of a specific cost reduction

project. Develop ideas to generate cost savings as well.

• Support productivity and waste reduction activities.
• Assist with capital projects; create conceptual drawings, equipment specifications and bid documentation to facilitate a competitive bid environment. Must be able to take a capital project from the quoting stage with vendors, to installing the equipment and having work instructions created for an operator to use that equipment.

• Assists in the commissioning of new plant equipment and other systems to ensure that installation into the production facility is handled efficiently and with minimal disruption to production.

• Be able to train operators and others to operate and troubleshoot equipment in their respective department(s).

• Support Ergonomic improvement activities. Support both short term (safety improvement recordable rate reduction) and long term (capital projects) ergonomic improvement initiatives.
• Perform OEE on equipment to reduce downtime, increase throughput and reduce scrap and/or rework.
• Participate in and/or lead kaizen events.
• Work with maintenance and production to create preventative maintenance plans, operator daily maintenance checklists, and other documentation to properly maintain our equipment. 
• Support Manufacturing Engineering with all error-proofing (poke-yoke) activities. Ability to learn about PLC’s, logic, etc.
• Perform time studies as required to ensure standard time and standard cost accuracy in our SAP MRP system.
• Assist in the development of new products, processes or systems.
• Assist production to develop and maintain the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for production related processes and train operators, lead people, supervisors, and managers as required.
• Aid in the design of fixtures, jigs, etc in Solidworks CAD software, as required, to improve production processes.
• Support the Quality department with root cause analysis’s of scrap product and corrective actions. 
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere with respect and communicate with others in a professional manner. 
• Provide technical support for engineering projects using MS Excel and Solidworks.
• Additional projects as required

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent qualification.
• Be enrolled in accredited engineering program or related study.
• Demonstrated application of engineering skills and problem-solving techniques.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills with applied experience working in a cross functional team environment.
• Ability to create technical documentation with computer applications such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.