WHAT DOES AN ENGINEERING INTERN DO?
Published: Jan 10, 2025 - The Engineering Intern collaborates daily with the maintenance team to diagnose and resolve equipment and process issues, ensuring optimal operation. Focuses on mentoring and redesigning equipment components, and developing lasting solutions to enhance reliability and efficiency. Engages in innovative practices such as 3D printing for rapid prototyping and training, contributing to workforce skill enhancement and strategic labor management.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Engineering Intern
1. Software Engineering Intern Duties
- Application Development: Develop and maintain applications.
- Automation: Automate the deployment and build CI/CD pipelines.
- Testing: Test the application and write test automation.
- Documentation: Document application features, design, etc on Confluence.
- Implementation: Evaluate tools and implement P.O.C (Proof of Concepts).
- Development Contribution: Contribute to the development and deployment of product features with a focus on business impact, return on investment, and end-user experience.
- Cross-Functional Work: Work cross-functionally across technical, business, and design teams throughout the software development lifecycle to develop industry-leading experiences.
- E-Commerce Understanding: Understand the back-end business flow of e-commerce, mobile, and omnichannel space, including departments such as fulfillment, warehousing, global membership services, retail, and Omni suite.
- Agile Collaboration: Work in Scrum sprints to create, design, and develop modules in coordination with the rest of the engineering team.
- Technical Problem-Solving: Take initiative in solving complex technical problems and recommend original solutions and design approaches to meet requirements, making decisions between competing solutions.
- Code Revision: Revise, update, and expand existing code bases.
- Architectural Alignment: Work closely with the Director of Technology to ensure conformance with the overall architectural guidelines.
2. Manufacturing Engineering Intern Details
- Manufacturing Support: Assist the manufacturing team in day-to-day manufacturing support.
- Fixture Design: Design assembly and test fixtures for manufacturing.
- Vendor Research: Research new vendors or processes to improve manufacturing.
- Process Documentation: Generate and improve manufacturing process instructions.
- Technical Writing: Create or edit technical documents like test protocols, reports, manufacturing work instructions, etc.
- Failure Analysis: Assist in failure root cause analysis and mitigation.
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements.
- Quality Compliance: Maintain trained status for, and comply with, all relevant aspects of the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality Management System to ensure product and support regulatory compliance.
- Quality Adherence: Understand and adhere to the PROCEPT BioRobotics Quality and EHS policies.
- Manufacturing Standardization: Establish and improve manufacturing process documenting standard work.
- Engineering Troubleshooting: Use Engineering tools to troubleshoot and diagnose issues that arise day to day that affect safety, quality, cost, or delivery.
- Project Implementation: Design, build, and implement a project that improves one of the above-mentioned SQCT targets.
- Engineering Support: Provide Manufacturing Engineering support to mechanical assemblies, fixtures and/or structures, circuit card assemblies (CCAs) and optical assemblies.
- Design Review: Review designs for producibility and affordability.
3. Manufacturing Engineering Intern Responsibilities
- Instruction Improvement: Identify improvement opportunities in work instructions and work with the documentation team to make necessary changes.
- Quality Troubleshooting: Work with the Operations Engineering Tech team to troubleshoot quality systems.
- New Product Rollout: Assist in the rollout of new products including recording quality and throughput improvement opportunities.
- Metric Analysis: Ensure metrics are recorded at assembly lines including identification of data trends.
- Time Studies: Perform time studies resulting in rebalancing of lines.
- Safety and Quality Projects: Additional projects focused on the improvement of safety, quality, and throughput as needed at the supervisor’s discretion.
- Production Solutions: Analyze production issues and implement solutions to resolve.
- Manufacturing Support: Provide manufacturing technical support to processes and requirements interpretation.
- Engineering Collaboration: Assist other Manufacturing and Quality Engineers on projects and activities.
- Engine Learning: Learn how to assemble an engine by hand.
- Production Education: Learn the processes used at Nissan to build engines in a mass-production, high-volume environment.
- Kaizen Leadership: Participate in and lead kaizen projects aimed at reducing scrap, reducing manufacturing costs, improving ergonomics, improving product quality, and many other challenging projects that accompany the fast-paced world of automotive engine manufacturing.
- Process Improvement: Review, develop, and implement process improvements on components, materials mechanical specifications, and assembly drawings.
- Component Testing: Perform analysis, qualification, and acceptance testing on components, material, optical assemblies, and mechanical fixtures and/or structures.
4. Engineering Intern Accountabilities
- Maintenance Partnership: Daily partnership with the Maintenance team to understand process and equipment issues.
- Troubleshooting Support: Troubleshooting and resolution of process and equipment issues.
- Mentoring: Mentoring/training of skilled trades personnel in troubleshooting practices and equipment theory of operation.
- Equipment Redesign: Redesigning of equipment components.
- Permanent Solutions: Development of permanent fixes to resolve reoccurring problems.
- Maintenance Evaluation: Evaluation of Preventive Maintenance programs and spare parts inventory levels and content.
- Reliability Improvements: Ideating and developing long-term improvement opportunities to increase equipment reliability.
- Innovation Testing: Using 3D printing technology to test new ideas and provide quick testing of improvement concepts.
- Training Development: Training and development of other Energizer colleagues in the use of 3D printers.
- Time Study Development: Develop time studies of various production positions.
- Staffing Recommendations: Develop staffing improvement recommendations based on time studies.
- Documentation and Presentation: Document time studies and present findings & improvement recommendations to plant leadership.
- Future Staffing: Provide future state staffing recommendations for key labor reduction projects.
5. Software Engineering Intern Functions
- Data Tool Development: Develop a new data management tool for Commercial HVAC product data.
- Agile Participation: Participate in the Agile/Scrum software development process.
- Software Solutions: Analyze software requirements and create solutions for them.
- Application Development: Full lifecycle application development.
- Web Development: Design and develop web-based software applications and components in various software languages.
- Code Analysis: Code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, and system risk analysis.
- Technology Evaluation: Evaluating and identifying new technologies for use by the software development team.
- Resource Direction: Directing on-site and remote contracted development and testing resources.
- Feature Design: Contributing to the design of new features and solutions.
- Stack Development: Developing and delivering features across the full stack (including use of modern PHP frameworks, front-end frameworks, HPCC, and other tools).
- Quality Assurance: Contributing to the quality assurance effort, including the use of test automation tools (such as Cucumber) and Continuous Integration tools (such as Jenkins/GitLab).
- Agile Teamwork: Contributing as a member of cross-functional agile product development teams.
- Product Delivery: Working closely with the product owner and project management to deliver products and enhancements to the market.