2027 Summer Intern - Controls Engineer (Robotics & Automation)

Stryten Energy; Salina (KS); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryten Energy in Salina, KS, offers a paid engineering internship focused on automation in our battery manufacturing facility. You'll work on PLC simulation, robotics integration, and process improvement across pasting, assembly, and formation operations.

You will gain hands-on experience, present learnings at the end, and must be onsite daily with housing and transportation arranged by you. Housing is not provided by the company.

Qualifications

• Working towards a degree in Electrical, Robotics & Automation, Controls, or Mechanical Engineering Technologies.
• Graduating between December 2027 and May 2028.
• GPA of 3.0 or greater.
• Must have housing and transportation to onsite internship.

Responsibilities

• Use procedures to simulate and test PLCs for automation in battery manufacturing.
• Improve production speed while maintaining quality and uptime.
• Improve documentation and build relationships with the facility team.
• Present learnings at the end of the internship.

Skills

Electrical

Robotics

Automation

Controls

Education

Electrical Eng

Robotics & Automation

Controls Eng

Mech Eng Tech

Job description

Stryten Energy builds batteries. Batteries that power your world. From cars, trucks, and boats to forklifts, railways, and UPS systems, Stryten batteries offer endurance and reliability. For our transportation batteries, we work directly with retail partners to put batteries on their shelves and then into your vehicles. For our motive and network power batteries, we sell directly to our customers.

Our Salina facility is part of the transportation division and is located at 413 E Berg Road. The internship will begin in May of 2027 and end in August 2027, and will work 40 hours a week. This is a paid opportunity, but housing is not provided, so you must have both housing and transportation.

Check out our interns from prior summers! https://jobs.stryten.com/stryten/early-careers

You will help with our increasing automation needs across our manufacturing facility. The role will have visibility in our pasting, assembly, and formation operations from a manufacturing efficiency rate, operator safety, evaluating existing controls for improvements, and uptime standard. You will help Stryten as we drive to the next level of manufacturing automation. You will thrive on the responsibility and take pride knowing the impact you'll have in this position.

• Use standard procedures, simulate, and test PLCs for automation, specifically around the application of robotics and its integration with the battery manufacturing process
• Where applicable, increase production speed at the current quality requirements and uptime
• Grow knowledge of the facility team and improve documentation
• Opportunity to present what you have learned at the end of your internship

We Are Looking For Students

• Working towards a degree in Electrical, Robotics & Automation, Controls, or Mechanical Engineering Technologies
• Graduating between December 2027 and May 2028
• With a GPA of 3.0 or greater
• You must have housing and transportation
• The position requires working on-site daily

Our environment is casual but professional, and our interns are exposed to many senior-level leaders. If this sounds good to you, then it's your time to shine! We don't want our interns to sit on the sidelines - we want you to challenge us and provide creative ways to approach projects.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future.