Intern Engineering

About the Role

Generac’s Internship Program is a full-time, on-site opportunity designed to provide students with real-world experience in a supportive and innovative environment. Interns contribute to impactful projects, gain exposure to industry best practices, and build lasting professional connections. This is a valuable opportunity to develop professional and technical skills alongside experienced mentors.

Potential Roles

• Electrical Systems: Designs electrical architectures, power distribution systems, wiring, sensors, and control hardware for products and equipment.
• Controls Engineering: Develops control algorithms and automation systems that monitor, regulate, and optimize product operation and performance.
• Embedded Systems: Designs firmware and embedded software that enables intelligent monitoring, communication, and control within electronic products.
• Power Electronics: Develops inverters, converters, battery interfaces, and energy management systems used in modern power generation and energy storage solutions.

Key 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.
• Creates and maintains CAD models, drawings, and BOMs.
• Supports product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs).
• Interfaces with internal company personnel.
• Provides technical support for assigned projects.
• Specifies 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 (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
• Travels to other Generac facilities as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• Understanding of basic electrical concepts.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical and electronic schematics.
• Background in working with programming languages that communicate with electronic hardware.
• Proficient oral and written communication, able to write clearly and succinctly.
• Ability to work FULL-TIME during the Summer – 40 Hour Week.
• Potential to continue working part-time during school.

Qualifications

• Completion of Sophomore year.