Internship Optimization Engineer Jobs in Charleston, SC

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At Mercedes-Benz Vans, we offer you the perfect environment for your professional and personal growth. Cutting-edge training and promising career opportunities will help you to foster and expand your professional skill set as well as your individual strengths. Think, try, and thrive with us in collaborative work environments that spark game-changing concepts. 

Job Overview:

We have an immediate opening for an Assembly Intern position.

Reporting to the Assembly Manager, the Assembly Intern provides the best possible support by assisting with all aspects of factory planning and engineering and helps to ensure that the ongoing plant expansion runs smoothly. 

Responsibilities:

• Assist areas such as Trim, Chassis, End-of-Line or Quality Assurance in Production

• Process documentation

• Feasibility analysis of optimization projects

• Optimize daily processes with new ideas

• Overview and updated, detailed schedule

• Coordinate project steps with plant operations

• Read and interpret drawings when needed

• Assist and lead meetings

• Taking meeting minutes and KPI editing

• Process optimization of production line processes

• Improve quality transparency by creating dashboards

• Time studies and analysis of bottlenecks

• Process analysis and process improvement ideas and implementation

• Project planning using Microsoft planner

• Time studies and poke yoke implementations

• Assist where needed by the department or other areas

Skills:

• Preferred studies in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Information System Engineering or other related/similar fields

• Experience with Information Systems
• Experience with lean manufacturing and methodologies
• Understanding of OEE and manufacturing KPI's
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Power-BI and related software
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Interest in process optimization and problem-solving

• Having graduated within the past 12 months or currently working towards a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering, Business or relevant degree is required to participate in the intern program.

Opportunities: 

Learn or improve the German language; cultural exchange with German interns.  

Applicants should be eager, driven, focused, hard-working individuals that are ready to assist a growing company with handling a complex multi-million dollar project. He or she should be willing to learn and be taught skills from experienced members of the engineering team. The individual should be self-motivated and interested in adding value and making a difference within an organization. 

Preferred Start Date:
July 20, 2026

If you have experience in the above and are interested in joining an outstanding company we welcome you to apply. The division Mercedes-Benz Vans is world renown for quality and innovative products.

Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of our team. We provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation),age, national origin, religion, marital status, veteran status, physical or other disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.