2027 Summer Intern - Controls Engineer (Robotics & Automation)

Overview:

Stryten Energy builds batteries. Batteries that power your world. From cars, trucks, and boats to forklifts, railways, and UPS systems, Stryten batteries offer endurance and reliability. For our transportation batteries, we work directly with retail partners to put batteries on their shelves and then into your vehicles. For our motive and network power batteries, we sell directly to our customers.

Our Salina facility is part of the transportation division and is located at 413 E Berg Road. The internship will begin in May of 2027 and end in August 2027, and will work 40 hours a week. This is a paid opportunity, but housing is not provided, so you must have both housing and transportation.

 

Check out our interns from prior summers! https://jobs.stryten.com/stryten/early-careers

Responsibilities:

You will help with our increasing automation needs across our manufacturing facility. The role will have visibility in our pasting, assembly, and formation operations from a manufacturing efficiency rate, operator safety, evaluating existing controls for improvements, and uptime standard. You will help Stryten as we drive to the next level of manufacturing automation. You will thrive on the responsibility and take pride knowing the impact you’ll have in this position.

• Use standard procedures, simulate, and test PLCs for automation, specifically around the application of robotics and its integration  with the battery manufacturing process
• Where applicable, increase production speed at the current quality requirements and uptime
• Grow knowledge of the facility team and improve documentation
• Opportunity to present what you have learned at the end of your internship

Qualifications:

We are looking for students:

• Working towards a degree in Electrical, Robotics & Automation, Controls, or Mechanical Engineering Technologies
• Graduating between December 2027 and May 2028
• With a GPA of 3.0 or greater
• You must have housing and transportation
• The position requires working on-site daily

 

Our environment is casual but professional, and our interns are exposed to many senior-level leaders. If this sounds good to you, then it’s your time to shine! We don’t want our interns to sit on the sidelines – we want you to challenge us and provide creative ways to approach projects.

 

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future.

EEO Statement:

Stryten Energy is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

About Statement:

Stryten Energy is a leading battery manufacturer and energy storage company providing one of the industry’s most comprehensive portfolios of battery technologies and energy storage solutions. The company designs, manufactures and distributes advanced lead, lithium and vanadium redox flow batteries for automotive, commercial vehicle, golf cart, material handling, specialty motive, aerial work platforms, floor care, data center, telecommunications, utility, industrial, military and government applications. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Stryten Energy operates 15 manufacturing and component facilities across the United States, with additional manufacturing operations in Mexico and China and commercial offices throughout Europe and Asia. The company’s portfolio includes the Stryten Energy, C&D Technologies and Trojan Battery product brands, serving customers worldwide with reliable energy storage solutions for critical infrastructure, mobility and national security applications. Learn more at www.stryten.com.