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Operations Manufacturing Design Undergrad Intern

Apple· Operations/Manufacturing Design
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Hybrid (United States)internshipPosted 4mo ago

About the role

Internship in Apple's Operations Manufacturing Design focused on bringing manufacturing design and quality engineering practices to support mechanical enclosure subassemblies, tooling, fixtures, and process validation for Apple products. Roles span Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE), Manufacturing Quality Engineer (MQE), and general Operations responsibilities. Opportunities to work with product design teams, suppliers, and internal partners to improve manufacturability, quality, cost, and delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Understand selection, implementation and optimization of manufacturing processes for mechanical enclosure subassemblies for our legendary products
  • Review product features for manufacturability, and suggest processes and equipment
  • Explore new manufacturing processes to enable future product design and conducting design of experiments to validate process capability
  • Work with global supplier managers to identify capable suppliers, and understand their processes for capacity, quality and cost
  • Work with suppliers to develop and refine mechanical tooling, fixtures and establish capability and readiness
  • Assist post production quality and cost improvement activity related to fixtures and processes
  • Utilize engineering, factory management and supply chain skills to develop high efficiency inspection equipment and quality systems
  • Help create state of the art inspection and measurement equipment for Apple products
  • Apply understanding of quality control and manufacturing concepts to product quality plans (PQP)
  • Support studies to improve measuring methods and coordinate quality engineering for multiple programs
  • Collaborate with internal and external groups to define quality expectations and assurance techniques
  • Support supplier quality activities including supplier selection for new products and sourcing
  • Take part in strategic projects with the Product Operations team
  • Demonstrate ownership, autonomy, and strong relationship-building with internal and external partners
  • Learn processes and underlying complexities of Product Operations
  • Support quality, cost, and labor initiatives across multiple cost markets and product groups

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a BS in mechanical engineering, material science, industrial engineering, or related field
  • Must return to school after internship or this internship must be the last requirement to graduate
  • Familiar with manufacturing environment
  • Knowledge of quality plans, validating test methods and gauges, and driving corrective actions/failure analysis
  • Knowledge of quality and reliability concepts, supplier management, and manufacturing operations
  • Familiar with project management and problem solving tools including design of experiments, root cause analysis and statistical process control (preferred)
  • Knowledge of mechanical enclosures, casings, plastic parts, injection molding, tooling, jigs, fixtures, or automotive high-volume quality manufacturing engineering (preferred)
  • Understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and statistics
  • Understanding of mechanical properties of materials as they relate to manufacturing requirements
  • Understanding of design of experiments principles
  • Ability to travel periodically domestically and overseas
  • Extraordinary interpersonal skills — verbal, written and presentation

Skills

Required:manufacturing process optimization
Nice to have:design of experimentsquality plans (PQP)supplier management

Benefits

  • Apple strives to be inclusive and supportive; opportunities to contribute to major products and learn across design, manufacturing, and quality disciplines
  • EEO and accessibility programs highlighted by Apple
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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