Quality Intern

Excelitas is seeking leaders and innovators to join our global team!

ENABLE your future through light.

Excelitas is a global technology leader with more than 7,500 employees, focused on delivering market-driven solutions to fulfill the illumination, optical, detection and imaging needs of OEMs and end-users across the biomedical, semiconductor, industrial, consumer products, scientific, security, defense and aerospace sectors.

ENGAGE with us today and make your contribution to the future! Join the team that leading technology companies turn to for cutting-edge photonic innovation. At Excelitas Technologies you are how we EXCEL.

Our facility in Billerica, Massachusetts, is located in the metropolitan Boston area and specializes in the design and manufacturing of advanced photonics products based on MEMS and other micro-scale optical devices. Our unique technology enables the highest system performance in the most compact and cost-effective formats in a variety of applications.

This site's Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) products are laser-based imaging tools that have transformed ophthalmic care and made notable impacts on patients in cardiology, dermatology, oncology, gastroenterology, and other medical specialties.

We are presently seeking an Intern for our Quality Assurance team at our Billerica site.  This position will support the Quality team in maintaining product quality standards, investigating quality issues, analyzing data, and assisting with continuous improvement activities. This internship provides hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment and exposure to quality systems, inspections, process controls, and problem-solving methodologies.

Main responsibilities:

• Assist with reviewing and analyzing quality data, including scrap, rework, yield, and defect trends.
• Support incoming, in-process, and final product inspections.
• Participate in root cause analysis and corrective action activities.
• Help investigate quality issues and document findings.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineering team and assist with updating quality/production procedures, and work instructions.
• Assist with creating and maintaining supplier scorecards to monitor supplier quality and performance metrics.
• Support process audits, and quality system compliance activities.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects focused on reducing defects and improving yield.
• Help track nonconforming material, holds, and rework activities.
• Follow all company safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Objectives:

• Assist the Quality team with root cause analysis investigations and corrective action activities.
• Gain hands-on experience with inspection processes, including incoming, in-process and final inspections.
• Learn quality documentation practices by reviewing and maintaining procedures, work instructions, and quality reports.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including manufacturing Engineering, Continues Improvement, Research and Development, Supply Chain, and Quality to support product and process improvements.

Requirements:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy.
• Be at least 18 years old (required for clean room, production, and lab areas)
• For purposes of eligibility to access export-controlled information, must be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, an admitted refugee, or a person granted asylum
• Pass the standard background check and any export-control screening required for the role
• Interns are not eligible for company-sponsored benefits except where required by law or by the terms of a benefit plan.
• Internships last a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 2 years. Every internship has a defined end date in the offer letter. Internships are reviewed every 6 months

The salary range for this position is $25.00 to $30.00

No relocation for this position

Must be a US Persons/No sponsorship allowed

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Minorities/Females/Disability/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation

No agencies please

Excelitas is seeking leaders and innovators to join our global team! Visit: www.excelitas.com/join-our-team!

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