Manufacturing Engineer Co‑op: Lean, Kaizen & Innovation

Nutanix; Sumter (SC); On-site; USD 30,000 - 39,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Eaton is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer Co-Op in Sumter, SC for Spring 2027. The role supports the CPA engineering team across project initiation to manufacturing launch, collaborating with design, product line marketing, and operations to improve outcomes.

The internship emphasizes training, specification development, and applying lean manufacturing concepts to achieve cost and quality improvements, with relocation assistance if needed.

Qualifications

• Actively enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering.
• GPA of 2.8 or higher (no rounding).
• Minimum internship or co-op experience or 3 months work experience.
• Will relocate to Sumter, SC for the co-op; relocation assistance for outside 50-mile radius.

Responsibilities

• Assist line and staff to develop solutions for product and manufacturing problems for a complete line of apparatus.
• Assist in training and development of personnel; assemble, verify and analyze results, prepare reports and present findings.
• Prepare specifications for products, equipment, tooling, processes, and systems to optimize cost and manufacturability.
• Implement strategies to secure concurrent engineering and design for manufacturing with the design team.
• Investigate new technologies and assess their total business impact.
• Design and guide installation of new concepts, equipment, tooling, processes, and systems to optimize manufacturing cost.
• Maintain knowledge of JIT, Lean & Agile Manufacturing, Kaizen, TQM, Poka-Yoke, and cPQI.
• Participate in project management with cross-functional teams using ProLaunch and other tools.
• Support VOC product and market requirements research.
• Meet project commitment dates.

Skills

Project management

VOC research

Lean manufacturing

Kaizen

JIT

Education

Engineering degree (Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial/Manufacturing)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Eaton is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer Co-Op in Sumter, SC for Spring 2027. The role supports the CPA engineering team across project initiation to manufacturing launch, collaborating with design, product line marketing, and operations to improve outcomes.

The internship emphasizes training, specification development, and applying lean manufacturing concepts to achieve cost and quality improvements, with relocation assistance if needed.