Hands-On Quality Engineer Intern — Real Projects & Mentorship

Cessna Aircraft Company; Cartersville (GA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Prepaid stipend

Hands-on project work

401(k) vesting consideration

Job summary

Textron Specialized Vehicles in Cartersville, GA is seeking a 2027 Quality Engineer Intern to gain hands-on experience on real projects alongside experienced professionals during a 10-week summer program.

You will build plans, tooling, analyze layouts, and improve processes while developing standards for inspection and testing. Pursuing a Mechanical/Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering degree, you’ll contribute to quality improvements and supply chain KPI monitoring.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, manufacturing engineering or related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and drive to complete tasks and assignments.
• Software knowledge: Microsoft Office and CAD.

Responsibilities

• Build plans, production tooling, and manufacturing processes for components and assemblies.
• Redesign tooling to improve operators’ work environments.
• Analyze layouts and production processes to improve facility layouts for product flow.
• Creating reference documents and standardized work for new or improved processes.
• Analyze quality concerns, make recommendations for improvement, and implement ideas.
• Exploring new equipment and software that can reduce scrap and downtime and recommend changes to production flow to implement recommendations.
• Monitor, communicate and improve key supply chain KPI’s including PPM, line disruptions and days to close non‑conforming material tickets (NCMT).
• Develop and initiate standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation.
• Evaluate production processes to increase productivity and investigate methods to enhance the product.
• Coordinate material and tooling availability with appropriate stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Mechanical aptitude

Education

Pursuing Mechanical Engineering

Pursuing Industrial Engineering

Pursuing Manufacturing Engineering

Related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

CAD

Job description

Textron Specialized Vehicles in Cartersville, GA is seeking a 2027 Quality Engineer Intern to gain hands-on experience on real projects alongside experienced professionals during a 10-week summer program.

You will build plans, tooling, analyze layouts, and improve processes while developing standards for inspection and testing. Pursuing a Mechanical/Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering degree, you’ll contribute to quality improvements and supply chain KPI monitoring.