{"id":1080940,"url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-manufacturing-engineer-co-op-spring-2027","title":"Manufacturing Engineer Co-op - Spring 2027","company":{"id":6044,"name":"Eaton","domain":"eaton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/eaton","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":180,"ghost_share":0.006,"stale_share":0.372,"repost_share":0.039,"time_to_fill_p50_days":41,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Sumter, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":65000,"max_usd":161000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":4852},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-08T18:16:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-18","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T11:01:07Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"What you’ll do:\nPosition Overview:\n\nSpring 2027 Start Date: Sophomore - $22.15, Junior - $24.92, Senior - $27.69\nThe Manufacturing Engineer Co-Op is responsible for providing assistance to the commercial products and assemblies (CPA) engineering team to develop solutions for product and manufacturing problems. This position will contribute to the manufacturing product line with involvement from project initiation thru manufacturing launch, plus ongoing developments. This position will work closely with the Engineering Manager, Program Manager, other Manufacturing Engineers and System Architects, Electrical Engineers, Product Line Marketing Manager, and Operations team members, Sourcing and Manufacturing personnel to support and continuously improve the product line.\nWhat you’ll do:\nProvide assistance to line and staff personnel in order to develop solutions for product and manufacturing problems for a complete line of apparatus.\nAssist in training and development of personnel. Assemble, verify, and analyze the results of others, prepare reports and present findings.\nInitiate and prepare specifications for products, equipment, tooling, processes, and systems to obtain optimum cost and quality manufacturability.\nImplement and utilize strategies to ensure concurrent engineering and design for manufacturing concepts with the design engineering team.\nInvestigate and develop understanding of new technologies and processes and be able to assess these from a broad perspective in terms of the impact of the total business.\nDesign, develop, justify, and guide the installation of new engineering concepts, equipment, tooling, processes, and systems through appropriate procedures so that optimum manufacturing cost can be achieved and maintained.\nMaintain an understanding of JIT, Lean & Agile Manufacturing, Kaizen, TQM, Poka-Yoke and cPQI.\nParticipate in project management and engaging with multi-disciplined teams to achieve goals using ProLaunch and other project management tools.\nParticipate in Voice of the Customer (VOC) product and market requirements research.\nEnsure timely completion to project commitment dates.\nOther duties, projects as assigned.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\nActively enrolled in a bachelor’s degree or master’s degree program in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering.\nMinimum of one internship or co-op experience or an equivalent of 3 months work experience completed at the time of this application.\nEaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.\nMinimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher (please don't round).\nMust be willing to relocate to the Sumter, SC site for the co-op. Relocation assistance will be provided for candidates that reside outside a 50-mile radius of Sumter, SC.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nPrior internship experience within a manufacturing environment.\nCandidate with Yellow Belt certification.\nUnderstanding of Lean Six Sigma concepts preferred.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office","description_format":"text","description_chars":3198,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Relocation assistance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Software","Space & Aerospace","Automotive Manufacturing","Power Supplies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-20T22:13:54Z"}],"liveness":{"score":64,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.711,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-manufacturing-engineer-co-op-spring-2027","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/eaton-manufacturing-engineer-co-op-spring-2027.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T13:55:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}