Intern: Maintenance Engineering - Mechanical (Fall 2023)

United States

About Volvo Group Trucks Operations
The Volvo Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, and aerospace components, and is one of the world's leading producers of heavy-diesel engines (9-16 liter). The Group also provides complete solutions for financing and service. The Volvo Group, which employs more than 90,000 people, has production facilities in 19 countries and sells their products in more than 180 markets. In Dublin, Virginia, the Group Trucks Operations of the Americas has its corporate presence in conjunction with the New River Valley assembly plant. The Dublin facility has 300 management and support staff serving 2100 industrial workers. The plant assembles over a hundred Class 8 Heavy Duty Trucks daily
Maintenance Engineering Intern Mechanical:
The internship role provides students with the opportunity to apply academic knowledge and skills in a manufacturing environment, and to support/promote the graduate's career goals through interaction with engineering professionals. Interns participate in professional activities for Volvo New River Valley Plant by working on practical, innovative, and important projects. This Internship provides structured learning experiences where interns and our Engineering professionals work together on projects within their selected organization. The internship allows students to integrate knowledge and skills in a manner that is mutually beneficial to the student and Volvo New River Valley Plant.
The purpose of this position is to provide engineering support to the Maintenance Engineering and Operations department and to provide learning opportunities for Mechanical or Electrical Engineering students, or Engineering Technology students.
Learning opportunities:

• Students will be involved in creating One Point Lessons as required.
• The position will give the student opportunities to learn and apply lean manufacturing principals within the maintenance organization.
• The position will review equipment preventative maintenance checks for effectiveness and look for ways to improve them as well as improving equipment reliability.
• The position will assist with and create professional and autonomous maintenance calendars.
• The student needs to have intermediate Excel skills for Data analysis and creating graphs.
• The position will review recommended spare parts and help determine stocking requirements and work with our Computerized Maintenance Management System to validate parts.
• Create power point presentations for communication of new project ideas and reports.
• The position will review equipment documentation and help with creating and maintaining the equipment library.
• The student will also help analyze the criticality of spare parts for equipment and create spare parts ledgers for production equipment and apply Failure Effect Mode Analysis methods.

IT Skills
Must have experience in EXCEL, MS Word, AutoCAD, or similar type of drafting program.
Education curriculum:
Mechanical Engineering / Mechanical Engineering Technology
At the Volvo Group, we strive for a clear, transparent, and straightforward compensation approach, motivating you to contribute to the company’s growth. For all intern and co-op positions, the hourly range is set at $16.00 - $46.00. The hourly rate for these roles is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, academic classification, and degree seeking area of study. In addition to these factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
We also offer the following benefits to interns and co-ops:

• Housing assistance
• Countless career opportunities / internal mobility across our global organization
• Training and personal development

140240BR

Volvo Trucks

Virginia

Dublin

Internship/Trainee/Co-op

Maintenance

02-Jun-2023