Design Engineering Intern

2300 Vierling Drive West, Shakopee, Minnesota 55379 United States of America

Since 1916, Oatey has provided reliable, high-quality products for the residential and commercial plumbing industries, with a commitment to delivering quality, building trust and improving lives. Today, Oatey operates a comprehensive manufacturing and distribution network comprised of industry leading family of companies:
Oatey, Cherne, Keeney, Quick Drain, Hercules, Dearborn, Oatey Canada, William H. Harvey, Masters, Contact, Belanger, Lansas, and Durgo.

At Oatey, we're doing big things — and by joining us, you'll have the chance to do big things too. You can build a strong career in an innovative, inclusive, high-performance environment, with the confidence that your company cares — about you, our customers and our world.

Ready to make an impact in a place where you matter?

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Interested in an internship with challenging projects, high visibility, professional networking, development, and fun?

Oatey is currently seeking college students for the summer of 2027 to join our award-winning program:
The Oatey Intern Experience. Oatey offers a 12-week summer internship that will expose you to meaningful work and exceed your expectations. You will be a part of a diverse, collaborative team environment yet experience your own personal and individual growth. Our interns deliver excellence through high engagement and performance, which is why we often hire them post-graduation*.

* Based on outstanding performance and organizational needs

The Oatey Intern Experience supports our growing organization by attracting talented students to develop them into future leaders. It is unique with one-on-one mentorship, developmental feedback and coaching, lunch series, engaging networking events and weekly forums. You will work closely with experts to develop your skills and gain valuable insight in your chosen career field. Additionally, you will have exposure to all leadership levels of Oatey.

Lastly, you will have a great time networking with other interns and forge lasting relationships.

• Learning and Development
• Peer Mentoring
• Challenging Team Projects
• Community Involvement

• Create CAD models of parts and assemblies using Solid Works and industry standard practices.
• Create production drawings using Solid Works and geometrical dimensioning industry standards such as ISO and ASME.
• Modify and/or convert Auto Cad drawings into Solid Works files.
• Create CAD models and sketches for conceptual designs.
• Distribute and communicate drawing update information to required departments.

• Experience in Solid Works software in creating parts, assemblies and drawing.
• Working knowledge of office tools such as Word & Excel.
• In-depth emotional intelligence: behavioral maturity, demonstrated trust and integrity, high ethical standards, interpersonal competence.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate ability to work on multiple tasks while generating results.
• Exercise discretion and good judgment.

• Proficient in Solidworks
• R&D exposure
• Working knowledge of GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)
• Two plus (2+) years of work manufacturing experience.

The Oatey family of companies are an equal opportunity employer committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We recruit, employ, promote, and offer competitive pay for all jobs without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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