Manufacturing Engineering Intern - Lead a Line Improvement

Lexington Medical, Inc; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Lexington Medical in Bedford, MA, is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Intern to spend the summer on a running production line building AEON surgical stapling products. You will monitor yield, downtime, and cycle time, troubleshoot with operators, and own a process-improvement project from concept to implementation.

You will present results to engineering leadership and work closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality in a single building in Bedford.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled at an accredited university in an undergraduate or graduate program in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a similar technical discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to build and debug mechanical or electromechanical assemblies from coursework, projects, labs, or personal work.
• Comfortable working with hand tools, shop equipment, and production machinery on the floor.
• Able to read mechanical drawings and work from SOPs and written work instructions.
• Able to clearly communicate analysis and observations to the engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Monitor line performance metrics, including yield, downtime, and cycle time.
• Partner with operators and technicians to troubleshoot equipment and process issues in real time.
• Perform repairs and maintenance on custom production equipment.
• Participate in daily and weekly production support meetings.
• Assess current processes for bottlenecks and inefficiencies and analyze data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Generate solutions, such as fixturing updates or workflow changes, and present them to the larger manufacturing team.
• Implement approved changes by training operators, commissioning equipment, or making other line changes as needed.
• Own a manufacturing improvement project from concept through implementation and present the outcome to engineering leadership.

Skills

CAD experience

Build and debug assemblies

Hand tools & production machinery

Read drawings & SOPs

Clear communication of analysis

Education

Undergraduate or graduate in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or similar

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

Lexington Medical in Bedford, MA, is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Intern to spend the summer on a running production line building AEON surgical stapling products. You will monitor yield, downtime, and cycle time, troubleshoot with operators, and own a process-improvement project from concept to implementation.

You will present results to engineering leadership and work closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Quality in a single building in Bedford.