Summer Internship - Engineering

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for Summer Interns to join our Engineering Team based in Grand Prairie, TX.

This position is located in Grand Prairie, TX.

Meet the Team:

Our Engineers have the privilege of working on complex, highly engineered machines and are involved at all stages of the aircraft life cycle, from product development to manufacturing and support to our customers. If you’re interested in designing, creating, and testing the present and future of Airbus products across the globe, join our mission to connect the world.

Your Working Environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your Challenges:

Primary Responsibilities:

Will vary based on the project available at the time, but almost always involve:

• Receive and digest introduction to
• basic helicopter operation and design,
• engineering department roles and activities,
• assigned project goals,
• Develop project schedule (phases / tasks list, milestones),
• Create project execution report (content to be adjusted based on target audience),
• Perform periodic reviews with direct supervisor,
• Brief project execution / lessons learnt to Department Manager upon project completion.

Mechanical background based project examples include:

• Research technical information for feasibility / obsolescence evaluation
• Perform maintenance, cataloging, or classification of existing technical data
• Create CAD models from legacy data or creating new CAD data
• Assist in prototyping activities the functional definition / analysis of an intended design the accomplishment of engineering airframe designs / analysis (and associated reports) repairs or modifications development programs requiring any type of mechanical or airframe analysis, detail design or testing (and associated reports) project execution performance analysis / improvement data manipulation and analysis (and associated reports)

Systems / Electrical background based project may include:

• Similar activities than mechanical based project except applied to electrical / systems topics

Additional Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Need to be currently located or local to the DFW metro area for the Summer Internship period - there is no relocation support for this opportunity - any out of area candidates can be considered but will need to relocate to DFW area at own expense
• Currently enrolled pursuing a degree in Aeronautical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering from an accredited college/university, required
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience in 2D or 3D design of detail parts, electrical diagrams, functional diagrams, assemblies and/or installations, preferred
• Basic knowledge of 2D or 3D mechanical or structural, OR electrical design requirements, required
• Basic coding of data analysis or logical processing functions, preferred
• Able to communicate effectively in the English language (verbal and written), required

Proficiency with the following tools/systems:

• Electrical design software
• 2D software (AutoCAD)
• 3D modeling software (SolidWorks, CATIA, or similar)
• Mathemati