Mechanical Design Engineering Co-op (Summer/Fall 2027)

RTX•Rockford, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time, Monday-Friday co-op session that will run May/June- December (including the Fall semester; it is expected students will take a semester off from coursework to fully engage with this working mentorship opportunity). As a Mechanical Design Engineering Co-op at Collins Aerospace, you will review completed layouts and drawings to ensure clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning. You will communicate with other engineering personnel to coordinate interrelated design and ensure project completion. You will support a Design lead in the creation and review of components, calculate stack-up of detail components, and perform analysis to substantiate model and print definition. You will resolve design problems of difficult scope to ensure project completion. You will engage with manufacturing and engineering counterparts to collaborate on production problem solving opportunities. You will be utilized as an individual contributor diagnosing and solving problems and building engineering capabilities. You will follow common procedures and standard work across the organization to optimize efficiency and quality of work performed. You will develop data and make layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposals. You will design components or portions of functional systems with assistance of experienced contributors and brainstorm technically advanced prototypes using computer design and engineering systems. You will investigate pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost. You will design, develop and test metallic or non-metallic structures or materials and their related fabrication processes for use in engineering designs.

Requirements

Must be pursuing Bachelor’s or Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major and actively enrolled through the completion of the internship/co-op session.
Experience may be obtained through on-the-job experience, research, coursework, or projects.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Nice To Haves

Experience with manufacturing techniques
Experience with Aerospace and Industrial Power Transmission systems
Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and/or PowerPoint)
Prior RTX internship, co-op, or work experience

Responsibilities

Review completed layouts and drawings to ensure clarity, completeness, conformity to standards, procedures, specifications, and accuracy of calculations and dimensioning.
Communicate with other engineering personnel to coordinate interrelated design and ensure project completion.
Support a Design lead in the creation and review of components, calculates stack-up of detail components, and performs analysis to substantiate model and print definition.
Resolve design problems of difficult scope to ensure project completion.
Engage with manufacturing and engineering counterparts to collaborate on production problem solving opportunities.
Be utilized as an individual contributor diagnosing and solving problems and building engineering capabilities.
Follow common procedures and standard work across the organization to optimize efficiency and quality of work performed.
Develop data and make layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposals.
Design components or portions of functional systems with assistance of experienced contributors and brainstorming technically advanced prototypes using computer design and engineering systems.
Investigate pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost.
Design, develop and test metallic or non-metallic structures or materials and their related fabrication processes for use in engineering designs.