Job: Test Engineer Intern

Jobing Description

AGCO North America Engineering

The AGCO Engineering teams are tasked with enhancing current product designs or creating new and innovative AG Machinery designs to bring to market.

Internship Program

The AGCO Engineering internship program is designed to identify promising undergraduate students and give them robust and meaningful engineering projects than can be completed within a 10-12 week time frame. While there will be a range of different projects, all projects will require significant mechanical, design and collaboration with other engineers.

Each intern will be paired up with a manager or supervisor and an experienced engineer. The manager will serve as a counselor and will meet with the intern at least monthly to give career guidance and counseling. The Engineer will be a peer / coach who will help the intern with any day-to-day questions.

As an Intern, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of a specific engineering project, seeing it from start to finish. You will be expected to ramp up quickly and integrate seamlessly within engineering team.

Test Engineer

The Test Engineer is responsible for the field testing of prototype machines and/or conducts laboratory tests and prototype updates. This requires the possibility of extensive travel and a good driving record. This position works collaboratively with design engineering personnel, machine users and others involved on assigned projects to collect and report machine performance data and information. This job includes significant hands on interface with machine prototypes, lab fixtures and lab equipment.

The ideal candidate will have:

* Strong academic performance: Strong GPA (2.8 or higher) or other academic achievements that demonstrate the ability to learn across multiple disciplines synthesize information and meet academic goals.
* Pursuing a bachelor s degree in: Mechanical Engineering, AG Engineering, AG Systems Management or AG Systems Technology
* Initiative: Extra-curricular activities or other internships that show the candidate s interests and the ability to harness passions to get things done.
* Analytic skills: Ability to use MS Office, 3-D modeling software to effectively to identify issues, summarize data and present information in an intelligent way for managers and directors to make effective decisions.
* Organization: Ability to follow instruction and delivery quality work product on time. Ability to ask the right questions and seek clarification when needed. Ability to organize data and stay on-task.
* Communications: Ability to communicate effectively. Professional mindset and demeanor in communication.