Engineering Intern

BETTER MOBILITY FOR LIFE

Savaria is a global leader in accessibility and patient care products, designing and building wheelchair lifts, stairlifts, elevators for home and commercial applications, medical beds, therapeutic surfaces, ceiling track lifts and patient slings. Savaria employs 2,450 valued associates globally and has 11+ manufacturing facilities to reach markets in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

SAVARIA PATIENT CARE

Built from a heritage of brands including Span, Handicare and Silvalea, Savaria Patient Care provides products designed for safe patient handling and positive outcomes. Our research and clinically based product portfolio include therapeutic surfaces for pressure management and positioning, a complete range of innovative ceiling and floor lifts and slings. Savaria Patient Care is a division of Savaria Corporation, a global leader in accessibility.

Overview: At Savaria Patient Care, we strive to make everyday life easier for our customers. As a leading manufacturer and distributor of Patient Care / Patient Handling products, Savaria Patient Care designs, engineers, and builds products to help the safe transfer and safe movement of users in hospital care, long-term care, as well as in-home care. Savaria Patient Care Internships provide students with valuable exposure to our industry, our products, and our processes. Our program provides candidates pursuant of an Engineering Bachelor’s Degree the opportunity to learn about the field they may one day work within. The Engineering Intern will aid in development and improvement implementations to production, engineering, and R&D processes that lead to a safer environment, higher quality, and lower cost product. This position will involve hands-on interaction with electromechanical devices and frequent interaction with production, engineering, and quality team members.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Investigate and implement improvement projects, Engineering Change Requests, Document Change Orders, and other assigned projects to improve Savaria Patient Care quality and efficiencies.
• Create and modify documents that instruct the shop floor on basic procedures for assembling products.
• Deploy modern lean manufacturing techniques.
• Ensures that products and components conform to engineering design, FDA and ISO regulatory requirements, and performance specifications.
• Additional responsibilities as requested or required by management.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

COMPETENCIES:

• Ability to perform in a dynamic environment with regularly shifting priorities
• Working knowledge of Manufacturing and Assembly process design and optimization
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of the customer in delivering on assignments
• Collaboratively builds the case for improvement and drives that forward
• Ability to manage projects, including developing statements of work, tracking status, working in cross-functional teams, and meeting deadlines
• Writes clearly and informatively
• Follows policies and procedures
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness
• Completes work in timely manner

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedural manuals or government regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from group of managers, or other team members.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & TRAINING:

• High School Diploma or
• Sophomore, Junior, or Senior Pursuant of bachelor's degree (B.A. / B.S.) from a four-year college or university in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering/technology, or similar degree.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES OR REGISTRATIONS:

• None required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• The employee may occasionally stand, walk, stoop, kneel or crouch during shift. Employee will be required to regularly sit, use hand to finger, handle, feel and reach with hands and arms. Employee must be able to occasionally lift, push, pull and or move up to 50 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• This position works in an environment with moderate noise levels.

TRAVEL:

• This position may travel to local supplier or customer sites (1-2 travel occurrences during internship)

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under various headings above. They may change at any time due to reasonable accommodations or other reasons. The above statements are strictly intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. They are to not be construed as a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills requires of employees in this position. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Savaria provides equal employment opportunities and consideration to all qualified employees and applicants, including disabled individuals and veterans. #SAVARIAPATIENTCARE