MCAD Mechanical Engineering Intern Year-Round High School {D}

ARKA Group L.P. (ARKA) is an advanced technologies company serving the U.S. military intelligence community and commercial space industry delivering next-generation solutions to support the national security space enterprise. Built on more than six decades of excellence ARKA brings modern approaches and a culture of innovation to the challenges of today.

Join the ARKA team to learn how Beyond Begins Here. Discover your next career opportunity now!

Position Overview:

Our Student Program provides amazing opportunities to develop functional job skills and gain real-world experience and expertise. We offer spring fall and year-round internships and co-ops in fields across the company including engineering finance and business development.

We are currently seeking a student enrolled in Henry Abbot Technical School in the Mechanical Design and Engineering Technology program to join our Engineering department as a Year-round Intern.

Responsibilities:

• This position requires an entry level designer/drafter to apply technical skills for moderate complexity interdisciplinary tasks. You will be responsible for producing tooling and related flight hardware within an integrated product team
• It is expected you will work autonomously with moderate oversight and be accountable for both space flight and non-space flight development program milestone deliverables

Basic Qualifications:

• Enrollment in Henry Abbot Technical School in the Mechanical Design and Engineering Technology program
• Create part models assembly layouts detailed drawings and bills of materials using CREO for solid modeling and PDMLink for data management
• Execute engineering design changes for part and assembly drawings
• Interact and coordinate with all engineering disciplines to deliver comprehensive design engineering and specification packages

Preferred Qualifications:

• General understanding of GD&T

Location: Danbury CT

This position is based onsite at our facility in Danbury CT. Located in beautiful Fairfield County Danbury offers a diverse economy wonderful parks cultural attractions an impressive mix of private and public educational institutions and a vibrant arts scene. Our facility is nestled among a remarkable selection of communities to call home all with varying price points to fit many different budgets. Were close to New York City Boston and other major cities great for day trips and weekend getaways. Our lovely seasons along with award-winning institutions colleges cultural events and a genuine sense of community brings a diverse population to the beautiful state of Connecticut!

When you choose to join the ARKA Student Program you will:

• Gain hands-on experience in your chosen field and share your unique ideas and creative problem-solving skills to help us continue our legacy of innovation
• Flourish and seamlessly develop great relationships with co-workers
• Network with students from other universities
• Participate in activities that support our local communities
• Work alongside our talented team including employees who started as interns or co-ops
• Enjoy companywide employee activities
• Receive competitive compensation and paid holidays

EHS/Environmental Requirements:

This job operates in a professional office environment. While performing the duties of this job the employee routinely is required to use hands to keyboard communicate listen to and interpret instructions and remain stationary for extended periods of the time. This would require the ability to move around the campus and occasionally move/lift items weighing up to 25 lbs. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Applicants are invited to apply for a reasonable accommodation to perform the essential duties of the job. To apply send a request to or contact and press 2 for Human Resources.

ITC & Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires the incumbent to access export-controlled information. If you are not a U.S. Person any offer is contingent upon the Companys ability to obtain a special license granting you access. This could take several months. You will not be able to begin employment until such license is obtained.

Visa Restrictions:

No visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Pre-employment Screenings:

Employment with any ARKA companies in the U.S. is contingent upon satisfactory completion of several pre-employment requirements to include a credit check background check and drug screen.

Required Experience:

Intern