Intern- Engineering; Fall

Job # ET26030

Job Title Intern - Engineering Industrial Systems

Office Location Roanoke, VA (preferred)

Business Function/Department Industrial Systems

Provide software design technical support for control solutions and drafting and hardware design technical support for electrical distribution and control solutions for industrial systems projects that meet client needs and fulfill project requirements.

• Gather pertinent information from authorized sources to assess project requirements as related to assigned scope of work.
• Create and document industrial controller and/or computer‑based software modules to meet control functionality and work progress targets, at prescribed engineering checkpoints.
• Create and animate Human Machine Interface (HMI) software to meet control functionality and work progress targets, at prescribed engineering checkpoints.
• Conduct simulation to verify industrial controller and/or computer software modules satisfy design and project requirements.
• Conduct simulation to verify the HMI software satisfies design and project requirements.
• Recommend improvements to test procedures to better identify where software does not meet all project requirements for assigned scope of work.
• Provide input regarding software engineering standards to improve productivity, increase quality, and reduce cost.
• Control document revision, distribution, and archiving within area of responsibility using established project document control procedures.
• Provide regular, accurate, and considered status reports to parties deemed appropriate to the situation.

• Gather pertinent information from authorized sources to assess project requirements as related to assigned scope of work.
• Create electrical drawings that accurately reflect each project’s electrical circuits, AC and DC drives, power distribution, PC/PLC and associated I/O, and other operator and miscellaneous control equipment, using approved CAD software packages.
• Create AC and DC control power distribution drawings, relay, network and sensor interface drawings, for each project using approved CAD software packages.
• Produce mechanical panel layout drawings based on bills of material and wiring diagrams, complying with USA or appropriate international codes and standards guidelines.
• Develop other project documentation, such as enclosure outline mechanical drawings and spare parts lists, in accordance with design standards and project requirements.
• Edit project drawings to reflect preliminary, manufacturing, as shipped, and final “As‑Installed” configurations.
• Update the project drawings as needed in support of site commissioning activities.
• Control document revision, distribution, and archiving within area of responsibility using established project document control procedures.
• Create and maintain standard drawing templates for various circuits and/or projects to improve consistency, accuracy, and turnaround time.
• Provide input regarding hardware engineering standards to improve productivity, increase quality, and reduce cost.
• Issue accurate requisitions, using the company’s ERP system, in time to ensure correct parts are ordered to meet project requirements.
• Provide regular, accurate, and considered status reports to parties deemed appropriate to the situation.

• Gather pertinent information from authorized sources to assess project requirements as related to assigned scope of work.
• Identify and define interfaces to other software modules and functions.
• Write software modules to satisfy project requirements.
• Collaborate with project team to ensure inter‑operation of software modules into overall project.
• Design and conduct simulation to verify the software modules satisfy project requirements.
• Collaborate with peers and recommend feasible hardware/software improvements to engineering manager.
• Provide regular, accurate, and considered status reports to parties deemed appropriate to the situation.

• Develop algorithms and transfer functions that define the electro‑mechanical operation of industrial machinery, primarily metal rolling mills.
• Verify these algorithms and transfer functions using computer…