Design Engineering Intern

About Re:Build Manufacturing and Re:Build Tekna:

Tekna was founded in 1988 in the heart of Southwest Michigan where creative vision and hard work laid the foundation for a business that continues to grow in a rapidly evolving industry. The rigor and attention to detail that comes with designing for the medical industry has awarded us success in supporting both major companies and start-ups from early stage development to commercialization. The same principles apply as weve expanded to serve customers in a wide variety of other industries including consumer and industrial goods electronics and appliances. Teknas project portfolio is incredibly diverse covering medical life science consumer and industrial product categories. Tekna is largely client focused offering design consulting contract manufacturing and original equipment manufacturing services. Teknas cross functional teams include Design Engineering Industrial Design CAD Procurement Production and Quality which offers a friendly and supportive team atmosphere.

Re:Build Manufacturing is a family of industrial businesses combining cutting-edge enabling technologies operational superiority and strategic M&A to build Americas next-generation industrial company. Re:Build leverages deep expertise in operations management and technology to supercharge the performance of its subsidiaries by implementing core technologies across industrial platforms in diversified growth markets. Our goal is to help revitalize the U.S. manufacturing base over the coming decades creating substantial opportunities for our employees and the communities where we operate.

If you like a fast-paced environment where individuals can stretch and be challenged with a diverse set of projects we offer a great deal of variety and empower our staff to take on as much responsibility as they can handle offering a helping hand and experienced-based coaching and the support of a highly competent team. Our goal is to enable our employees to achieve their fullest potential and through our association with Re:Build provide avenues for personal and professional growth.

Who we are looking for

The role of the Design Engineering Intern is to provide engineering support during product design development and commercialization activities for both internal and consulting projects. The Design Engineering Intern will have the chance to work in a variety of markets including medical devices and consumer appliances.

What youll get to do

Your day-to-day activities will include:

• Must be both self-sufficient and capable of working closely with a supervising mentor.
• Create 2D engineering drawings to communicate designs to suppliers and customers.
• Develop conceptual designs utilizing 3D CAD software (preferably Creo2).
• Apply fundamental engineering theory and design principles.
• Ability to demonstrate good problem-solving skills and work with complex and under defined problems.
• Capability to communicate ideas through presentations rough sketches and simple physical models.
• Must be interested in product design and development field of engineering.
• Must be able to work with colleagues and clients with professionalism.

What you bring to the team

Working toward or completed: Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field. Junior or Senior- level students (completed at least two years towards the stated degree).

We want to work with people that reflect the communities in which we operate

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