Engineering Placement Student 2025

At INVISTA we make the chemicals, polymers, fabrics, and fibres that can handle life’s toughest demands. We deliver products and brands incorporated into your clothing, your car, and even your carpet. INVISTA is part of Koch Industries, one of the largest privately-owned companies in the world. This brings with it a culture of transformation and innovation which is key to our continued success and goal of sustaining world-class levels of performance.

INVISTA's Gloucester site is looking for a motivated and entrepreneurial Intern keen to work on manufacturing advancement and automation, to join the Operations Performance Fibres Team in summer 2025 for 13 months. Our plant is dedicated to the production of quality products used in the automotive airbag industry.

What You Will Do

• Lead projects to enhance existing assets to improve yield, quality, reliability, and efficiency.
• Work collaboratively with the site based and global operations and engineering teams to identify, design, and implement solutions for improving asset performance. This would include conducting data analysis to gain insights and determine future projects.
• Design and implementation of Mechanical/Electrical modifications to upgrade existing machinery.
• Opportunity to work with 3D printer and workshop equipment as required.
• Development of dashboards and apps for use within the manufacturing group.

Previous interns’ projects include

• Design, development, and installation of mechanical process enhancements which included CAD modelling, interacting with contractors and financial project assessments.
• Advancement of digitisation strategies to modernise manufacturing processes across global facilities. Employing emerging technologies in autonomous systems, analytics, and robotics, such as camera analysis, co-bots, Raspberry Pi(s), etc.
• Applying cutting edge data analytics to dictate optimised process parameters. Performing design of experiment studies to verify statistical models.
• Automation enhancement of systems to reduce/eliminate human Interaction on a number of repetitive tasks.
• Review of process equipment performance to enable replacement, offering enhanced reliability and performance.

Who You Are

• You will be studying towards a degree in Mechanical, Robotic, Mechatronic, Electrical, Electronic Engineering or other Engineering disciplines.
• Be proactive, have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage your own workload and priorities.
• You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to contribute within a team orientated environment.
• You will be adept at operating outside of your comfort zone and apply economic and critical thinking to identify value creation activities and process improvements.
• You will be a self-starter and be committed to learning and developing new skills.

What We Can Offer You

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Successful applicants will be able to evolve in a role that is tailored to their talents and passions, whilst being supported by their supervisor and the operations/engineering teams. You will have opportunities for industrial training and access to global learning platforms to enable you to propel forward your own professional development.

In addition, you will receive a competitive salary of £25,000 per annum, private healthcare, 25 days holiday per annum, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance and access to an Employee Assistance Programme.

Application Process

• Application deadline: 30th November 2024. (Subject to change depending on volume of applicants).
• Online interview with HR and current placement student during November/December 2024.
• In-person assessment day in December 2024.
• Start date: July 2025

Who We Are

As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life’s essential products to market.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how ourbusiness philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.