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Join hundreds of interns nationwide for a summer of learning, growth, and connection, including:
- Innovation Challenge
- Volunteering opportunities
- Executive engagement
- Development + career workshops
- Inclusive and diverse environment with in-person and/or hybrid work options
- Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k), Medical, Dental, and Vision
About FRICK Industrial Refrigeration The FRICK brand is produced by Johnson Controls, a global diversified technology and industrial leader maintaining global industrial refrigeration focused operations and serving customers in over 150 countries. FRICK, the leader in industrial refrigeration, is comprised of many product lines. We have compressors, compressor packages, complete packaged systems, pressure vessels, hygienic air units, heat exchangers, and controls.
What you will do? The Industrial Refrigeration group at Johnson Controls is looking for an intern to join their team. This opening is at the Johnson Controls, Inc. manufacturing and engineering design center located in Waynesboro, PA.
This will be a full-time undergraduate Summer 2027 internship. Prior interns are encouraged to apply to full-time positions as their graduation date approaches, and senior interns may receive post-graduation, full-time employment offer letters following an exemplary summer internship.
In addition to supporting local needs, interns participate in activity across the broader Johnson Controls network for skills training and compete in presentation events.
How you will do it?
The successful candidate will provide engineering assistance to support the design and manufacture of pressure vessels, screw compressors, airside and industrial refrigeration packaged equipment. Work may include 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD), product data management, software application programing, engineering analysis, and refrigeration and piping analysis.
The candidate may also explore capabilities of existing software packages to help promote metadata standardization and software deployment standardization.
The candidate will be encouraged to use AI tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Claude to improve engineering workflows. This may include building tools that automate repetitive tasks, comparing drawings and bills of material, validating test data, and turning engineering documents and data into formats AI can use effectively. Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI-assisted coding, and the strengths and limitations of large language models is preferred. The candidate should be able to verify AI-generated output critically and understand the importance of clean, standardized data.
Through this work, the intern will have opportunities to put the Johnson Controls Winning Behaviors into practice by focusing on high-impact engineering challenges, collaborating across teams, taking ownership of results, and continuously improving engineering processes and tools.
What we look for:
Required Qualifications
- Currently enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student at an ABET accredited U.S. college or university.
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Mechanical Engineering.
- Currently a junior or senior graduating in December 2027 or later.
- Must have CAD experience with 2D and 3D modeling using Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, Fusion 360 or similar.
- Those with understanding of writing macros, programming and scripting are strongly considered. Use of C#, C++, Python, VB, SQL queries, PowerShell is common within existing workflows.
- Desire to focus on resolving CAD technical challenges including advanced modeling, design accelerators, vaulting, programing, automation and artificial intelligent application challenges.
- Familiarity with, or willingness to learn, AI tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Claude to improve engineering workflows.
- US Citizen.
- Local candidates preferred; no relocation provided.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Product Data Management (PDM) systems such as Autodesk Vault or Solidworks PDM.
Work Location & Housing Housing assistance is not provided as part of the JCI internship program. Candidates are responsible for securing their own accommodations prior to the start of the internship.
Waynesboro, PA is conveniently accessible from nearby cities such as Hagerstown, MD and Chambersburg, PA. Some previous interns have also utilized Shippensburg University - Summer Intern Housing.
We understand the preference to have a more flexible working environment working either remote or on site. Summer interns typically work 3 to 5 days onsite, per week, as the opportunity for hands-on training and interfacing with colleagues is needed in this role.
Why Join Us This internship offers the opportunity to apply classroom knowledge to engineering challenges supporting FRICK industrial refrigeration products while gaining exposure to manufacturing, engineering design, CAD, programming, automation, and emerging technology.
You will work alongside engineering and manufacturing professionals while developing your technical and professional skills within the broader Johnson Controls network.
The experience also provides opportunities to develop and demonstrate the Johnson Controls Winning Behaviors:
- We focus on what matters: Prioritize engineering work that creates meaningful impact for our products, processes, and customers.
- We win as one team: Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and colleagues across the Johnson Controls network while valuing different perspectives.
- We own the outcome: Take accountability for work, apply sound engineering judgment, and verify results.
- We improve every day: Learn continuously and explore better approaches to CAD, programming, automation, data, and engineering processes.
HIRING HOURLY RANGE: $22.00 - $25.50/hour (Hourly rate to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, location and alignment with market data.) This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, please visit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us
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