When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. You’ll have the opportunity to grow and learn in a culture that empowers your development. We have created an inclusive, global environment that values the power of diverse talent, backgrounds, and experiences to drive speed, productivity, innovation, and growth.
Our internship program will give you a chance to get real world business experience and build your network before graduation. We are seeking an energetic, responsible intern to join our growing organization. In this position, you will be expected to learn the ins-and-outs of our daily routines and procedures. You will focus on learning how our organization runs, and can be expected to gain valuable insight that can further your interest in your chosen career field.

Summary of Internship
As an Automation Engineering intern, you will turn product concepts and designs into reality. You will work in a new product development environment that develops a wide variety of plastic labware products from concept to launch.
The Automation Engineering Team develops the manufacturing process and equipment to produce product. You’ll help us research, develop, and deploy innovative new technologies for the manufacturing, assembly and testing of plastic products. You will collaborate with a diverse cross-functional team of operations managers, design engineers, process development engineers, packaging engineers, quality engineers and project leaders to develop plastic products for life science, medical device, laboratory, diagnostic and consumer product markets.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a intern mentor in a new product development environment that will allow you to learn product and process development methods and expand your engineering knowledge.

Essential Functions
 

• Process Design: Support Process Design by conducting DOE of Process Parameters and present analysis at technical review.
• Manufacturing Process Design: Use process design tools (process flow diagram, PFMEA and
• control plan) to develop machine specifications and process risk assessments.
• Process Design Validation and Launch: Conduct Factory Acceptance Test, Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ) and Production Qualification (PQ) for new processes and process changes.
• Develop Engineering Standards: Help to create and implement automation engineering design guides and standards that improve the internal processes of the Automation Engineering team.

• Creative, innovative and critical thinking
• Analytical nature, responds positively to challenges and a problem solver
• Responsive, results oriented and task driven
• Self-directed, well-organized with ability to manage multiple assignments
• Excellent documentation, planning and organizational skills

• Currently enrolled in a Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent) Bachelor’s Degree program
• Industrial Process or Robotics experience.
• Formal problem-solving experience is preferred (Six Sigma).
• Experience with basic data analysis and statistics for process capability analysis.
• Strong PC skills, proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Willing to travel (< 10%)

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.