What are the responsibilities and job description for the Co-op - Spring 2026 position at RoviSys?
Overview
RoviSys employees work on exciting projects in a collaborative environment. Our engineers are intelligent, talented, enthusiastic teammates who use technology to provide innovative solutions for complex client challenges. Our innovative solutions make a difference in industry and society every day.
Responsibilities
Co-op Position: College Student
RoviSys offers a broad opportunity to grow your career while working under the guidance of experienced Engineers and Developers with any of the following duties:
- Design and develop automation systems
- Design and develop electrical control systems that will interface with process lines, manufacturing equipment and sensors
- Architect solutions using the appropriate technologies from database to AI to User Interface tools.
- Provide our clients with real time, actionable information reports about their process
- Develop quality code in accordance with established RoviSys and client standards
- Work in team environment with engineers and designers from RoviSys, partners and clients
- Travel to customer sites for planning meetings, commissioning and testing
- Grow into position leading a team of engineers and technicians to provide automation and information solutions.
Below are the co-op paths we currently offer.
Systems:
- Success Factors:
- Understanding of Process or Manufacturing Systems
- Co-op Experience
- Electrical or Process Knowledge
- Technologies Used:
- DCS, PLCs, Rockwell, Siemens, Emerson, Schneider, Inductive, Aveva
- Duties:
- Design and develop automation systems
- Travel to client plants to assess and document existing systems and connected equipment
- Use P&ID, Equipment Lists, I/O Lists and Process Descriptions to define control schemes for clients.
- Network customer systems, Controllers, HMI PC's, Field mounted instruments and Process Skids to provide fully integrated control systems
Information Systems:
- Success Factors:
- Ability to understand Information System architectures
- Technologies Used:
- Relational Databases and Historians (MS SQL Server, Oracle, OSIsoft, etc.)
- Python, VBA/VBscript/C# syntax, Linux shell scription (Bash,make), PowerShell scripting
- Duties:
- Design and implement industry software applications to aggregate manufacturing systems information and provide reports to support business decisions
- Manually configure technical solutions and identify optimization opportunities by leveraging scripting and automation to increase process efficiency
- Install and commission systems connected to the plant floor devices onsite and support operations personnel through effective use and maintenance of the deployed solutions
- Scripting and light programming
Industrial IT:
- Success Factors:
- Passion for networking
- Virtualization
- Cybersecurity in a manufacturing or office setting
- Technologies Used:
- Virtualization, Networking
- Cybersecurity, Windows, Wireless
- Duties:
- Map and Design Network Architectures
- Configure and Test Infrastructure components
- Install and Commission equipment at customer sites, per design
- Communicate with customer and project team to define needs and design/implement solutions
Qualifications
- Full-time student status
- Strong academic achievement, maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or above
- Enrollment in a Bachelor's program in a Technical Field, related to Engineering, or Control Systems
- Passionate about problem solving and developing solutions
Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without RoviSys sponsorship