What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2026 Summer Intern - Controls Engineer (Robotics & Automation) position at Stryten Energy?
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 2025 and end in August 2025, 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.
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, or Mechanical Engineering
- Graduating between December 2026 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.
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 helps solve the world’s most pressing energy challenges with a broad range of energy storage solutions across the Essential Power, Motive Power, Transportation, Military and Government sectors. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we partner with some of the world’s most recognized companies to meet the growing demand for reliable and sustainable energy storage capacity. Stryten powers everything from submarines to subcompacts, microgrids, warehouses, distribution centers, cars, trains and trucks. Our stored energy technologies include advanced lead, lithium and vanadium redox flow batteries, intelligent chargers and energy performance management software that keep people on the move and supply chains running. An industry leader backed by more than a century of expertise, Stryten has The Energy to Challenge the status quo and deliver top-performing energy solutions for today and tomorrow. Learn more at stryten.com.
