Lexingtonmedical
Manufacturing Engineering Intern
Bedford, MA. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will work on a production line building a surgical stapler. You will monitor line performance, troubleshoot issues, and own one process improvement project from concept to implementation.
What you will do
- 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 process 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.
Required qualifications
- Currently enrolled at an accredited university in an undergraduate or graduate program in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a similar technical discipline.
- CAD experience (SolidWorks or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to build and debug mechanical or electromechanical assemblies from coursework, a project team, a lab, or personal projects.
- 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 engineering team.
Nice to have
- Comfort analyzing data in Excel or a similar tool
- Time on a build team such as Formula SAE, Baja, or robotics
About the company
Lexington Medical designs and manufactures AEON™ surgical stapling technology at its headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts. Engineering, manufacturing, and quality work together under one roof.