Engineering Intern

Find Your Career With LiftOne

We're a family-owned company under our third generation of leadership and have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.

LiftOne invests in people, facilities and innovative technology as part of the essential role we play in supporting our country's supply chain and enabling critical goods to be delivered to homes and businesses. We're a privately held company, and pair our scale with a strong foundation in our culture and values. This combination gives us a competitive advantage in the market and helps make us a trailblazing organization that is built to last.

We're looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we're committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential. We offer great benefits, competitive salaries and opportunities for advancement to all our employees.

Be a part of the essential work we do at LiftOne and make a difference for our customers, our community and our company. Learn more about what it means to become a team member with LiftOne.

Summary

The Engineering Intern will get firsthand exposure of automation and racking solution projects, from concept to aftermarket care. In this position, you will learn how to translate a customer's need into a custom solution through process mapping, data analysis, product selection, and sizing. You will get exposure to projects that are in the implementation phase, understanding the support, logistics, and testing that comes with physical and software installation. Lastly, you will learn how to support a project following go-live to ensure continued success.

In this position, you will learn how to take skills you have acquired in school that are related to your areas of interest and apply them in a professional setting. You will have opportunities to not only learn from young professionals, but also interact and present to management. Interns will get to network with Sales, Product Management, Project Management, Operations, and Systems Technology.

Essential Responsibilities

• Create CAD drawings to help customers visualize rack solutions
• Participate in the creation of simulations for moving applications (AMR, AGV)
• Complete analysis on customer's warehouse order data and present conclusions
• Visit a site implementation
• Aid in the set up of the Innovation Center for tours
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.

• Candidates must demonstrate an interest and ability to enter the Systems Integrator field and be pursuing either an undergrad degree in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering.
• Candidates will be evaluated on:
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency with MS Office, including MS Excel, MS Word and MS PowerPoint
  • Working knowledge of AutoCad
  • Working knowledge of SolidWorks
  • Working knowledge of data analytics tools
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Candidates must be based in Charlotte, NC
• Visiting/working at our various sites is an essential function of the job and may require travel up to 30% of the time.

Desired Attributes

• High level of motivation, self-starter, excellent at follow-up, team-player with ability to work with front line employees, middle management, and executives to deliver within defined timelines
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic, and high growth technology environment
• Entrepreneurial: If the right process or tool is not available, raise your hand and provide recommendations for a solution
• Accountable: Does what they say. Honors commitments. Takes action. Follows through.
• Detail Oriented: Gets the details right in all work products and communications
• Positive & Engaged: Brings a positive attitude to work. Understands that employees succeed together
• Principled: Does the right thing. Remains honest and provides constructive feedback
• Adaptable: Improve always. Seeks to continuously improve the business, the team, and themselves

Workplace Requirements

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We're committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

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