Intern Engineering
About the role
Generac’s Internship Program is designed to provide students with real-world experience in a supportive and innovative environment. Students contribute to impactful projects, gain exposure to industry best practices, and build lasting professional connections. This is a valuable opportunity to develop your professional and technical skills and grow alongside experienced mentors. Potential Roles You Will Be Considered For: Electrical Systems - Designs electrical architectures, power distribution systems, wiring, sensors, and control hardware for products and equipment.; Controls Engineering - Develops control algorithms and automation systems that monitor, regulate, and optimize product operation and performance.; Embedded Systems - Designs firmware and embedded software that enables intelligent monitoring, communication, and control within electronic products.; Power Electronics - Develops inverters, converters, battery interfaces, and energy management systems used in modern power generation and energy storage solutions.
Responsibilities
- Designs, validates, and brings new products to market.
- Provides new product development support in the Industrial, Commercial, Residential and/or Retail generator or Power Tool product area including; Creating and maintaining CAD models, drawings, and BOMs; Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs); Interfacing with internal company personnel; Provide technical support for assigned projects.
- Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates standard, less complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.
- Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for standard products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
- Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize basic designs for manufacturability.
- Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
- Supports product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs)
- Travels to other Generac facilities as necessary
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a bachelors or masters degree in electrical engineering or related field.
- Understanding of basic electrical concepts.
- Read and interpret electrical and electronic schematics.
- Background in working with programming languages that communicate with electronic hardware.
- Proficient oral and written communication and able to write clearly and succinctly to get a message across.
Qualifications
- Preferred Education: Completion of Sophomore year
Schedule
Ability to work FULL-TIME during the Summer – 40 Hour Week; Potential to continue working part time during school.