What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Control/Process Engineering Co-op (Spring '26) position at Cincinnati Incorporated?
Quality Control/Process Engineering Co-op (Job ID: 1262-439)
Cincinnati Incorporated has been manufacturing machinery since the late 1890s. We pride ourselves on the performance and dependability of our metal fabrication products. Our quality is not only seen in our machines, but also in our team members. CI employees have shaped our reputation and culture with their uncompromising integrity, focus, and innovation. Are you ready to learn from the best?
Semester: Spring 2026
Position Summary & Purpose: An opportunity for someone to get in at the beginning stages of developing a Quality System. Will work directly with operators, supervisors, and QC technicians to develop and oversee the Inspection Plan Process. This person will be instrumental in building this brand new system and then helping to maintain it. The role will require significant interaction with operators and will spend 50% of their time on the shop floor helping to integrate the Inspection plans. This will provide an opportunity for the person to gain valuable experience across many different manufacturing platforms.
The other 50% of their time will be spent on a computer reviewing part drawings, developing the inspection plans, entering data from completed plans, and manipulating the data to create reports and conducting analysis.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Work with the existing QC team and operators to create and develop Part Inspection Plans.
This will require the following actions:
- Look at a part drawing and identify the critical features to be measured
- Establish the appropriate measuring tools that will be needed
- Confirm whether we have the appropriate measuring tools and identify any gaps
- Work with QC Manager to establish the frequency for measuring for each part
- Use this information to create the Inspection Plan based on a pre-existing template
- This person will also manage the Part Inspection Database by making changes when needed. Inspection plans will be updated as new part revisions are released.
Qualifications:
- Experience in shop environment and understands the required level of safety and what to expect from daily on-the-floor work.
- Needs to have good verbal communication skills to interact with operators, supervisors, and QC team regarding technical details of work.
- Create spreadsheets using an intermediate level of complexity (vlookup, conditional formatting, linking cells on different tabs and workbooks)
- Ability to create forms, tables and other basic data presentation tools
- Understands how to read drawings and knowledge of GD&T
- Organized and good attention to detail
- Ability to calculate and understand basic statistic measures – knowledge of /- sigma variations,
- Ability to work with, and manipulate, large amounts of data – pivot tables, graphing, sorting
Valued but not required:
- Background in engineering/manufacturing principles, First Article Inspections, FMEA analysis, Cp & Cpk, gauge R&R, quality processes, part inspection experience, and capability analysis
Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
Physical demands: Employee occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth vision perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
This role does not offer sponsorship employment benefits and being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. You must be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, or recent lawful permanent resident to apply.
EOE including disabilities/VETS
