Woodward Internships 2027: Programs, Pay and How to Apply

Woodward runs a paid summer internship program for students, built around real engineering and business projects rather than busywork, across its aerospace and industrial energy-control businesses. The program isn't tied to one single fixed class the way a big tech company's is, so postings for a specific summer show up on Woodward's own student careers portal and ApplyBolt's live board as they open.

If you haven't heard of Woodward, that's normal. It isn't a consumer brand. It's the company that builds the control systems inside aircraft engines and industrial power equipment, and that kind of work rarely makes headlines even though the company is sizeable and well established.

What Woodward actually does

Woodward designs and manufactures energy control systems across two segments. Aerospace covers aircraft engine controls, actuation systems and flight deck systems, along with some space and defense work. Industrial covers controls for power generation, oil and gas equipment and transportation. The company is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker WWD.

Woodward's two segments at a glance

How the internship program works

Woodward's careers site describes the internship as a chance to apply classroom skills to real projects alongside working engineers and other professionals, with real attention paid to professional development on top of day-to-day work. One detail worth knowing if you're weighing offers: Woodward explicitly frames the program as something students can come back to for a second or even third summer, which is a real signal that a strong first internship there can turn into an ongoing relationship rather than a one-off resume line.

Because Woodward runs both office-based engineering teams and physical manufacturing sites, expect the posting to specify a location up front, whether that's a design center or a plant floor, rather than one unified headquarters experience.

What a Woodward internship pays

Woodward hasn't published a standard intern pay rate, and its student careers page doesn't list one either. Engineering internships at large industrial and aerospace manufacturers commonly pay hourly, with the exact number depending on role, site and degree level, so check the specific posting once it's live rather than assuming a figure going in.

What's open right now and how to apply

ApplyBolt's live board currently shows dozens of open Woodward roles, spanning manufacturing technicians, new grad engineering positions and experienced hires across its US sites, though not an internship-titled posting as of this writing. That lines up with how the program runs: student postings tend to appear closer to the recruiting season rather than a full year out. The fastest way to catch one the day it opens is to filter Woodward's own job portal for student and intern worker types, or check the live roles below, which pull from the same postings.

Woodward doesn't publish acceptance rates or the size of its intern class, so treat this like other rolling, site-by-site internship searches rather than one national process with a single deadline. Apply as soon as a relevant posting appears instead of waiting to see if a better one shows up later, since a specific site's seats can fill before a second wave of postings ever goes up.

Engineering and industrial employers in general tend to recruit for summer roles from late summer through the following spring, with the earliest postings landing months before the actual start date and steadier hiring continuing well into winter. There's no indication Woodward runs on a sharply different calendar than that broader pattern, so a student targeting a Woodward internship should treat this fall and winter as the main window to watch rather than assuming it's already too late once summer 2026 ends.

For where Woodward's timeline sits next to the rest of the market, see our summer 2027 internships guide. If you're weighing engineering-heavy internships at defense and industrial companies more broadly, our General Dynamics guide and Vertiv guide cover two others in the same category, and our 2027 hardware engineering internships list rounds up openings across all of them.