Part-Time Student - Factory Manufacturing Engineering - East Moline, IL - Military Veterans
at John Deere
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Primary Location: United States (US) - Illinois - East Moline
Function: Factory Engineering (CA)
Title: Part-Time Student - Factory Manufacturing Engineering - East Moline, IL -110251
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 Harvester Works located in East Moline, IL you will support manufacturing planning and process control activities for Harvester works production departments and fab assembly lines. 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:
- Investigate product and process related issues and recommend changes based on observations and salary/wage interactions
- Participate in the implementation for the resulting aforementioned activities
- Provide special engineering project support at the direction of the factory engineering team
- Provide analysis to support timely and accurate solutions to line side issues
- Perform audits or reviews, including inputting and maintaining information in factory databases and systems
- Assist in investigations and corrective actions and leverage innovative ideas to best address long standing manufacturing issues
What Skills You Need
- Ideally you will be pursuing a degree in an engineering discipline; others may apply
- Must be registered as a full-time student at a U.S. local accredited college/university
- Graduation date of May 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 35-40 hours/weekly
- Must be able to commute to the work location in East Moline, Illinois on a daily basis year-round
- Coursework covering engineering or science related topics
- Familiarity with information gathering and analysis techniques
- Strong communication skills
- 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
- Knowledge and experience with agricultural equipment or other off highway machinery
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Strong communication skills with experience solving technical problems
- 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
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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East Moline, IL
We at John Deere are passionate about finding a way to give back to those who have served our Country. Working for a John Deere dealership or factory is bigger than just a job. It's growth in oneself, on a path to achieving all you hoped to accomplish. It's pride in your community, from the first customer you serve to supporting the community. It's knowing that what you do helps to feed, clothe, and shelter the world. It all starts with you. Starting here. Starting now!
Interested in joining the industry's best? At John Deere, veterans will find:
• A higher sense of purpose – helping those the farmers and infra-structure workers that feed and shelter the world
• A team-based environment focused on supporting the customer
• A never-ending desire for continuous improvement - We are looking for leaders, change agents, different perspectives
• Market leading pay and benefits
John Deere actively welcomes transitioning active duty service members to participate in internship opportunities at our dealership and factory locations across the United States. Timing of the internship is mutually agreed upon between the service member, her/his commander. Potential opportunities include:
• Dealer technicians – Nationwide opportunities
• Factory production roles at 16 major facilities– assembly, welders, machinists, skilled trades
• Support roles – IT, supply chain, logistics, engineering, human resources
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