Design Engineering Intern

Asahi Kasei•Glenview, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Design Engineering Intern will assist with the CAD driven mechanical design of custom and standard capital equipment used for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical product manufacturing. This includes equipment types such as chromatography, buffer formulation, virus filtration, and oligonucleotide synthesis. The intern will support Lead Designers in various activities, including CAD layout of system components using Solidworks, assessing best practices per ASME-BPE guidelines, creating fabrication drawings in Solidworks, and creating/modifying Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) using AutoCAD. The role involves interfacing with the Engineering team and customer stakeholders, managing concurrent assignments, and applying a curious, energetic, and customer-focused mindset. The intern will also be encouraged to make suggestions for improvement.

Requirements

Currently in pursuit of Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Biomedical)
Ability to work onsite at Glenview facility
Proficiency in CAD software: Solidworks and AutoCAD
Awareness of Quality Management Systems
Awareness of personal strengths, weaknesses, and impact of decisions on wider team and department
Eagerness to learn new technical information, new processes, and new skills
Willingness to assist outside of everyday responsibilities when required
Energetic, positive, strong interpersonal communicator, detail-oriented, ethics-minded, problem-solver, adaptable, team-oriented, customer-focused, and self-motivated

Responsibilities

Create and/or review P&IDs in collaboration with Project Engineer
Create and/or review Solidworks models in collaboration with Lead Designer
Create and/or review Solidworks fabrication drawings for system lines and frame components
Aid in the presentation of system designs to Project Engineer and Customer
Work with Assembly to assess potential design modifications
Aid in managing the PDM Vault file management system
Aid in efforts to further standardize design activities, including file renaming and cataloging commonly used parts
Aid in integrating PDM Vault with Business Central
Contribute to process improvement activities as directed
Seek and participate in current, relevant technical training as well as non-technical training opportunities
Provide subject matter training to colleagues and customers