Manufacturing and Machining Co-Op

Emerson
Marshalltown, Iowa, United StatesPosted Sep 1, 2026

About the role

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be

  • Support and promote a strong safety culture.
  • Support the achievement of the following critical success factors: Safety,

Quality, Delivery/Lead-time Cost/Inventory Management and Cost of Quality.

  • Support the development and qualification of new procedures and processes.
  • Provide a manufacturing support interface with Engineering, Sales, and

Marketing to address potential manufacturability issues.

  • Lean Implementation – Supporting the implementation of Lean in processes as

appropriate.

  • Understand the principles and support the reduction in the cost of quality

(COQ).

  • Drive Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE):
  • Quality
  • Analyze data and implement Root-Cause solutions to improve processes and

personnel driven nonconformance’s.

  • Productivity
  • Identify and Facilitate Implementation of process improvements.
  • Coordinate and communicate with all levels of the organization (formal and

informal presentations).

  • Develop Best Practices and Procedures; communicate these to employees through

Visual Workplace, Formal Training, and Area meetings.

  • Participate in the development of capital plans, support Appropriation

Requests and the implementation of new capital technology to improve manufacturing processes and the reduction of nonconformance’s.

  • Delivery – Assist in coordination of production and quality activities to

support Customer expectations.

  • Productivity - Identify and Facilitate Implementation of process improvement

opportunities to increase throughput.

Who You Are

  • You prepare content for communication that is impactful. You convert ideas

into actions and produce results with new initiatives. You engage frontline employees for input and evaluate their best ideas. You are open to change and continue to learn and experience new opportunities.

For This Role, You Will Need

  • Enrollment in a Bachelor's degree program in

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