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The intern will contribute to real projects that support the development, validation, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement of Dematic automation solutions.The program is designed for students who enjoy turning ideas into reality. Candidates who bring creativity, curiosity, and hands-on experience building, testing, troubleshooting, coding, fabricating, or improving technical systems will be well positioned to succeed.\nWe offer:\nCareer Development\nCompetitive Compensation and Benefits\nPay Transparency\nGlobal Opportunities\nLearn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/\nDematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.\nThis policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.\nThe base pay range for this role is estimated to be $19-$23 per hour at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.\nTasks and Qualifications:\nIntegrated Learning & Professional Development:\nGain diverse experiences across multiple Engineering & Delivery Optimization teams throughout successive co-op rotations.\nWork alongside experienced engineers, technical specialists, operations professionals, and business leaders.\nBuild technical, analytical, communication, collaboration, and project-execution skills.\nExplore multiple engineering career paths before graduation while developing a broad understanding of how automation solutions move from concept through deployment and continuous improvement.\nCoordinate work-based learning with the requirements of the student’s participating school and co-operative education curriculum.\nKey Responsibilities:\nComplete structured assignments across multiple EDO teams over successive co-op rotations, with learning objectives and responsibilities appropriate to each assignment.\nContribute to meaningful engineering, software, validation, operations, sustainability, architecture, and process-improvement work.\nApply classroom knowledge to practical mechanical, electrical, software, and automation challenges.\nBuild, test, analyze, document, troubleshoot, and improve solutions under the guidance of experienced engineers and technical specialists.\nCollaborate across functions, communicate findings, and prepare clear technical documentation, analyses, and presentations.\nDemonstrate safe work practices, professional conduct, initiative, ownership, and a continuous-learning mindset.\nSkills and Capabilities:\nCuriosity and a strong desire to understand how technical systems work.\nCreative problem-solving and willingness to explore, prototype, test, and improve ideas.\nHands-on building, fabrication, assembly, electronics, programming, robotics, automotive, maker, laboratory, or similar practical experience preferred.\nAbility to learn new engineering tools, applications, technologies, and processes.\nEffective written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to collaborate in cross-functional teams and work responsibly with appropriate guidance.\nOrganization, initiative, attention to detail, and commitment to quality and safety.\nRotation Organizations and Activities:\nSolutions Data & Applications\nSupport the development, hosting, administration, and continuous improvement of solutioning applications and engineering tools.\nParticipate in application testing, validation, enhancement, deployment, and support activities.\nDevelop or improve dashboards, analytics, reporting, documentation, and user workflows.\nLearn how software applications, data, and hosted tools enable solution development.\nSolutions Mechatronics Engineering\nSupport mechatronics engineering for the Dematic Solution Center and module engineering standardization.\nAssist with system evaluations, design work, 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