Engineering Co-Op Student

The Engineering Co-op (College Student) position at CHI is intended to provide a means over a 12-month period to evaluate new talent and engineering capability with the intent of hiring the employee as a full-time engineer if the engineer-to-be performs well at CHI and if there is a job opening when the employee graduates with his/her engineering degree. This program at CHI is also intended on providing the selected candidate with meaningful engineering experience in various facets of manufacturing aerospace composite parts.

The following responsibilities serve as a general guideline for day-to-day duties. Employees may be required to periodically perform duties outside of their job description. The goal of all CHI employees is to provide assistance where needed to support production in meeting customer commitments.

Responsibilities:
1) Assist project engineer(s) with data collection and analysis under project engineer (PE) direction.
2) Assist with given tasks from manager on CHI’s all-encompassing data collection system.
3) Learn basic material and processing of composite parts selected by manager and/or project engineer.
4) Understand assigned master work instructions (MWIs) and work with operators and manufacturing engineers (MEs) to learn basic composite layup, bagging, curing, machining and assembly operations. Perform hands-on work under the guidance of the lead operators, VSL’s and manufacturing engineers (ME).
5) Review customer documents and specifications to become familiar with typical aerospace requirements.
6) Use learned CHI experiences to have discussions with the project engineer(s) and begin thinking of and suggesting process improvements.
7) Begin to understand design of experiments (DOEs), monitoring trials and assessing data.
8) Assist in writing standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other engineering documents.

Qualifications
• Be able to work a minimum of 6 months equivalent over a 12-month time or part-time employment, 20+hrs/week (both equaling 800 hours per calendar year).
• Have high interest in learning about aerospace part manufacturing.
• Be able to perform multiple tasks with focus.
• Be proficient in recording and plotting data for engineering analysis.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Be a team player.
• Job requires to be trained and able to handle hazardous waste.
• Student must be enrolled in an accredited residential college (not on-line university).
• Proof of U.S. Persons Required

Education and/or Experience
Minimum 2 years completed in an accredited university and actively pursuing a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in engineering.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.