Engineering Co-op (WI)

Strattec Security•Milwaukee, WI

About The Position

Strattec Security Corporation offers engineering students a four-term cooperative education program with work alternating between 3- to 4-month terms and an academic semester or summer period. All four work terms are required. Students apply academic concepts in a real-world setting, learn from experienced professionals, and earn academic credit for their work. Students work 40 hours per week during each term and present a summary of their experiences to the organization at the end of each term. The rotations cover Product Engineering and the Prototype Lab, Quality Assurance, and Process Engineering. In the final term, students choose an area such as Quality, Operations, or Product Engineering; assignment to another area may be considered case by case. Work may include product design and development, prototyping, testing, quality and process studies, manufacturing and equipment support, documentation, and collaboration with customers, vendors, and cross-functional teams. The position is intended for actively enrolled engineering students in good academic standing who are taking a credit course covering their co-op experience.

Requirements

Be actively enrolled in good standing in a bachelor's degree program in an engineering discipline, specifically mechanical or industrial engineering.
Be enrolled in a credit course covering the co-op experience during each work term.
Commit to all four required work terms.
Work 40 hours per week during each term.
Conduct oneself professionally and follow Strattec Security salaried-associate work rules.

Responsibilities

Design and develop products; conduct benchmarking, tolerance stack-up analysis, theoretical strength calculations, and design improvement investigations.
Work with customers and vendors, potentially including travel, and review customer-, product-, and process-related specifications.
Support prototype development, use CAD to develop prototype models, and create work instructions for prototype processes and equipment.
Develop test plans and coordinate design validation with internal test labs.
Prepare Design Failure Mode Effects Analyses (DFMEA), Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), and other engineering documentation.
Conduct measurement system analysis studies, including Gage R&R, and design experiments, collect and summarize data, recommend solutions, and implement them.
Create detail and assembly drawings for tools, fixtures, machines, and plant layouts; use AutoCAD for applicable Process Engineering work.
Support assembly equipment implementation by preparing setup and operator instructions, control plans, layouts, and customer-approval documentation.
Support equipment and programming troubleshooting, cost estimation of tooling and machinery, and improvements to material-handling bottlenecks.
Learn and work with manufacturing processes including die casting, stamping, and machine shop operations, and collaborate with quality, manufacturing, product design, and tool design teams.
Present a summary of co-op experiences to the organization at the end of each term.
If aptitude is demonstrated, lead a capstone project during the Quality Assurance or Process Engineering term and present it at term end.