Manufacturing Intern

Caterpillar is seeking a Manufacturing Intern for a 9-week internship in Georgia, focusing on supply chain, electrical, and production assembly operations. Interns will work with teams to improve processes, develop standardized labeling solutions, and enhance quality checks. Candidates should have an interest in manufacturing and be at least 18 years old. Bilingual skills in Spanish are a plus.
Who We Are:

From Georgia. For Georgia. Since 1914 Yancey Bros. Co. has proudly served as the authorized Caterpillar equipment dealer for Georgia, providing our customers with the highest quality sales, parts and service. From Caterpillar heavy and compact construction equipment to on-highway trucks, we remain committed to learning more about our customers, offering equipment and support to keep up with their changing needs. This all starts with our greatest asset…our employees.

What You Will Be Doing:

As an Intern for our Yancey Engineered Solutions division, you will have the opportunity to work with our supply chain, electrical, and production assembly teams. This internship will be 9-weeks long, with 3-weeks spent with each team.

Supply Chain Kitting & Ship Loose Operations:
• Work with the kitting teams within Supply Chain at Yancey Engineered Solutions to familiarize themselves with parts and common YES nomenclature.
• Develop a standardized process with the teams and improve on current processes to limit issues and missing items.
• Work with supply chain teams on the D365 WMS implementation, assisting with cycle counts and initial count ins of inventory, including labeling and identifying material.
• Evaluate and identify areas for improvement in our kitting quality checks, identify repeat issues that cause failures and work with Quality & Supply Chain to mitigate them.

Production Electrical Operations:
• Work with the Electrical Team at Yancey Engineered Solutions to develop trade skills and seek technical improvements within the electrical team.
• Develop a standardized label solution for panel labels, wiring labels, and other unit labels utilizing on site label printer automation.
• Learn and become proficient with electrical schematics to further identify gaps and improvements to pass to the design engineering team.
• Evaluate and identify areas for improvement in our electrical test quality gate, identify repeat issues that delay successful testing and work with Quality & Electrical to mitigate them.

Production Assembly Operations:
• Work with the Assembly Team at Yancey Engineered Solutions to develop trade skills and seek efficiency gains within production operations.
• Develop a standardized label solution for common unit labeling.
• Establish a production kit review process to audit kits once received from Supply Chain team, identifying gaps and eliminating missing parts before they impact production operations.
• Evaluate and identify areas for improvement in our final assembly quality gate. Identify areas of repeat failures and found issues, work with assembly to establish processes to eliminate those issues.

Who We Are Looking For:

To be successful in this position, you should have an interest in the manufacturing industry, a desire to learn, and and the ability to work will in team settings.

Education/Experience:
• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Required Qualifications/Skills:
• Must be 18+ years of age.
• Bilingual abilities are a plus - read, write, and speak Spanish