Facilities Engineer Co-Op Summer/Fall 2025

Facilities and Sustainability Co-Op

Sanford, NC

 

 

COTY is looking for smart leaders who are tenacious, passionate, and fearlessly kind.

 

Facilities and Sustainability Co-Op/Internship Summer and Fall 2025 (7.5 month) 

 

Kick off a challenging and rewarding engineering career with Coty! Our Facilities and Sustainability Co-Op provides the opportunity to own a project to reduce our carbon footprint while improving a production loss in Cost, Quality, Safety, and delivering breakthrough results in your assigned area.  The areas include making and chemical process, warehouse systems and processes, material optimization, high-speed filling technologies and packing technologies. You will lead continuous improvement activities through detailed data analysis and root cause problem solving tools to achieve a project over a designated period.  You will have the opportunity to use your Studies in a Manufacturing environment giving you experience in your field on a practical level.  

 

 

THE ROLE

 

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Provide sustainability ideas and execute projects to drive our Net-Zero Fossil Fuel efforts.
• Reduce our Factory and Distribution Center CO2 emissions by 30% on FY24.
• Apply process improvement tools including statistical process control, process mapping, control charts, design of experiments, Lean methodology and process capability studies.
• Analyze critical systems data to make recommendations for improvement from trends.
• Develop standards and train facilities technicians for continuous improvement at their systems.
• Develop and document processes (Process Flow Diagrams).
• Drive cost savings through improved productivity, resources utilization improvements and by optimizing labor.
• You will have the opportunity to utilize 6-Sigma and Lean Manufacturing methodologies to drive improvement in critical KPI’s for the manufacturing facility.

 

 

 QUALIFICATIONS

 

We’d love to see candidates who have:

 

Knowledge:

• Analytical problem solving and information gathering skills (Key Performance Indicator reporting, gap analysis, Kaizen, Loss Tree, cause-and-effect diagrams, 5-whys, etc.)

 

Functional / Technical Skills:

• Working knowledge of statistics - Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Design of Experiments (DOE).
• Lean tools (i.e poka yoke / mistake proofing / pFMEA, SMED, Standard work, value stream mapping, TPM, 5S, continuous flow, visual factory, pull systems / Kanban, etc.)
• Intermediate to advanced level computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, drawing software, SAP).

 

Education Requirements:

• B.S. Degree in an Engineering Discipline with 1-2 years remaining till graduation.