Intern Engineering

Generac's Internship Program is full-time (40 hours per week) from May/June through August 2027. The program will be on-site, with positions in the following locations: Waukesha, WI (headquarters); Pewaukee, WI; plant locations throughout Wisconsin. Students contribute to impactful projects, gain exposure to industry best practices, and build lasting professional connections. Potential roles include Electrical Systems, Controls Engineering, Embedded Systems, and Power Electronics.

Responsibilities

Designs, validates, and brings new products to market; Provides new product development support in the Industrial, Commercial, Residential and/or Retail generator or Power Tool product area including creating and maintaining CAD models, drawings, and BOMs, supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs), interfacing with internal company personnel, and providing technical support for assigned projects; Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates standard, less complex components to produce final designs; evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety; Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for standard products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials; Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize basic designs for manufacturability; Utilizes CAD or CAE systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings; Supports product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs); Travels to other Generac facilities as necessary; Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Currently pursuing a bachelors or masters degree in electrical engineering or related field; Understanding of basic electrical concepts; Read and interpret electrical and electronic schematics; Background in working with programming languages that communicate with electronic hardware; Proficient oral and written communication and able to write clearly and succinctly to get a message across; Ability to work FULL-TIME during the Summer – 40 Hour Week; Potential to continue working part time during school

Nice to have

Completion of Sophomore year