
Controls Engineering Intern/Co-Op
Part-timeGrand Rapids, MI · HybridPart-time$20–29/hrPosted 1w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Dematic seeks an Electrical Controls Applications Engineering Intern for its Customer Service Modernizations & Upgrades group, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The intern assists engineers with system design, project tasks, commissioning, and testing, and may travel 40–50% to customer locations in the United States. Candidates are actively pursuing an undergraduate engineering degree; PLC programming experience is preferred but not required.
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Full job description
Dematic has an immediate need for an Electrical Controls Applications Engineering Intern in our Customer Service Modernizations & Upgrades group. Qualified candidates are proficient in preforming basic tasks and able to take direction from senior engineers. Employees should be based in Grand Rapids, MI, however, must be willing to travel 40-50% to customer locations in the USA. We offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer
Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $20.00 - $29.00 per hour at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications: Job Family Responsibilities:
- Assists in the design of routine systems that integrate hardware and software.
- Assist lead engineers with project documentation and tasks.
- Ability to learn and show proficiency with Dematic systems, e.g., CAD, SAP, Travel, and other applications.
- Provides assistance in recommending ideas related to productivity improvement, cost reduction, and improvement in customer satisfaction.
- Aids in the start-up, commissioning, and testing of material handling systems.
- Assist with software PLC emulation and testing of material handling systems.
- Ability to locate and follow Standard Work Practices and procedures.
Key Responsibilities:
- Performs basic tasks and functions for professional field of work.
- Seeks advice and guidance on nonroutine or problem areas from others.
- Identifies problems as they occur and takes appropriate steps to solve them in situations where the problem is not difficult or complex.
- Communicate effectively using both written and verbal skills.
- General understanding of project execution and deliverables; Scope, Schedule, Budget.
Education:
- Actively pursuing a BS/BA Under-Grad in Engineering.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Typically, up to 0-4 years of experience in related field and successful demonstration of Key Responsibilities and Knowledge as presented above. Advanced degree MAY be substituted for experience, where applicable.
- Demonstrates and applies comprehensive knowledge of field of specialization to the successful completion of complex assignments.
- Demonstrates a basic knowledge of professional principles and skills.
- Effectively uses fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of a particular area of specialization.
- Experience with PLC programming (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, or Schneider) is preferred but not required.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and technical manuals.
Travel:
- 40-50%
Key Working Relationships:
- Contacts are primarily with immediate manager and others in the group.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,286 open Electrical Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$20–29/hr
- US median$25–34/hr283 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $24.50/hr, is 17% below the US median midpoint ($30/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Electrical Engineering hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 72 open Electrical Engineering jobs in Michigan and 3,286 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Electrical Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 2,268 postings).
- Education
- 1,604 of the 3,286 open Electrical Engineering jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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