Aliaxis is one of the world's leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems, valves and fittings. We are present all over the world in more than 40 countries and more than 15.000 people, with 100 production and distribution units. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

In Italy we are present with more than 700 people and 5 production sites. With our main local brands FIP, REDI, ASTORE, ISEA and LARETER, we make products for the building, infrastructure, industry, and agriculture sectors.

We are looking for a Continuous Improvement Intern for our plant in Zola Predosa (BO), for an initial period of 6 months.

The resource will be inserted in the Operations area in relation to the continuous improvement project of the Zola Predosa plant. This figure will have the goal of helping the production and maintenance departments in the development of lean projects.

The Key Responsibilities can be summarized as follows:

• Collaborate to ensure that Group organisational standards for management for Health and Safety, Quality, ISO14001, Corporate Policy, Customer Excellence and business values are adhered to during project delivery.
• Understand Manufacturing and Supply Chain excellence goals and execution plant wide to achieve performance, financial and staff development objectives.
• Facilitates, assists, and develops shop floor excellence operations and removes barriers for employees to meet measurable objectives.
• Deploy and participates in Gemba walks and coaching employees on 5S / standard work / visual management development/modification/adherence, M.D.I., continuous improvement, flow, and problem solving and other lean methods, techniques and processes.
• Participates in the training and development of plant employees in excellence program
• Support planning, execution and sustainment of Kaizen and Lean manufacturing related events with in value stream team(s).
• Track and report program progress and communicate with plant leadership.
• Prepare reports to be shared with plant leadership.
• Provides a physical presence in the workplace.
• Contribute to the development of Best Place to Work objective through effective people management and talent management (Talent Acquisition, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Development, Performance Calibration etc) for direct and indirect employees in collaboration with relevant functional stakeholders.
• Implement effective methods of obtaining data from plants to evaluate KPIs (MES); base in order to improve.

Required Qualifications and Competencies:

• Engineering Degree.
• Excellent knowledge of the Office package, in particular Excel.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency to operational performance and excellence.
• Proactivity.
• Ability to work in a team in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment.
• Written and spoken English.