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Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa - Davenport
Function: Factory Engineering (CA)
Title: Part Time Student - Manufacturing Engineering - Davenport, IA - 115788
Onsite/Remote: Onsite Position
Note: Relocation assistance is not provided.
The Part-Time Student Program is primarily designed to augment the Company's regular full-time staff and is for students who work in parallel to their school schedule YEAR-ROUND.
Your Responsibilities
As a Factory Part Time Student - Manufacturing Engineering at John Deere Davenport Works located in Davenport, IA you will support manufacturing planning and process control activities for Davenport Works fabrication production departments. This role will include a wide variety of tasks in support of our manufacturing objectives and leverage your previous job/internships/experiences building upon the skills obtained within your accredited degree program. In addition, you will:
- Support daily operations by responding to tactical issues in a shop floor environment.
- Actively participate in Continuous Improvement (CI) process on the shop floor - improving and implementing departmental Safety, Quality, Efficiency, Delivery, Ergonomic, & Cost reduction projects
- Works with electronic tools to perform engineering functions.
- Assist in investigations and corrective actions and leverage innovative ideas to best address long standing manufacturing issues
This position is not available to students on immigration visas.
What Skills You Need
- Ideally you will be pursuing a degree in the following: Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Technology, others may apply
- Must be registered as a full-time student at an accredited college/university.
- Graduation date of December 2026 or later.
- Cumulative GPA of 2.8 or above.
- Available to work during the academic year 16-20 hours/weekly.
- Available to work during the summer semester 30-40 hours/weekly.
- Must be able to commute to the work location in Davenport, Iowa on a daily basis year-round
- An effective communicator who thrives on solving problems and working in a team environment
- Experience demonstrating technical aptitude in an Engineering discipline
- Experience with root cause analysis, corrective action, mistake proofing or digital process control tools
- A self-starter with the ability to execute multiple tasks in parallel
- Ability to gather, analyze, and summarize trend data to make sound decisions
What Makes You Stand Out
- Demonstrable mechanical aptitude or familiarity and ability work within a manufacturing environment
- Familiarity with drawing and schematic interpretation, product models and /or geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
- Experience with software programming languages and/or ML familiarity
- Experience in one or more related engineering areas: electrical, software programming, troubleshooting, design, and manufacturing
- Manufacturing Factory hands on experience
- SAP experience
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Strong communication skills with experience solving technical problems
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
- Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Benefit Pension)
- Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Tuition assistance
- Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
- Charitable contribution match
- Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
$15 - $40 hourly based on published rates for business function and education level.
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Must be 18 years of age or older to apply
The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.
The terms of the applicable benefit plans, and all company actions administering or interpreting these plans, continue to control. Deere & Company reserves the right to suspend, amend, modify, or terminate the Plan(s) in any manner at any time, including the right to modify or eliminate any cost-sharing between the company and participants. Changes, which can be made at any time, are made by action of the company's board of directors, or to the extent authorized by resolution of its board of directors, or by the Deere & Company Compensation Committee. In the event of a conflict between the language of the official Plan Documents and this document, the language of the official Plan Documents will control.
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