Computer/SCADA Engineering Intern

Description

Lyons Magnus leads the food industry with creativity and innovation, crafting top-quality products across all manufacturing phases, from raw materials to marketing. With over 2000 diverse items for industrial ingredient and food service sectors, Lyons caters to leading restaurant chains nationally and internationally.

At Lyons, our diverse and talented staff is the heart of our organization. We foster a thriving work environment where employees are engaged in shaping both the company's and their own future.

The Computer / SCADA Engineering Intern will support the Engineering team at our Fresno, CA manufacturing facility, which produces syrups and sauces. This role is designed to provide hands-on exposure to manufacturing operations, process improvement, and plant performance. The intern will work on real projects that improve efficiency, reduce waste, and support safe, high-quality production.

The intern will work on real projects that improve efficiency, reduce waste, and support safe, high-quality production. This internship is structured to provide meaningful project work. Administrative tasks such as filing or data entry will be limited and will not exceed approximately 30–40% of the overall experience.

Pay: $21.00 per hour

Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Location: Fresno, CA

Work Environment: In-Office

Core Responsibilities:

• Support SCADA, PLC, and data-management projects to improve visibility into plant performance and utility monitoring.
• Assist with building dashboards, historian tags, and data structures that support engineering, maintenance, and reliability analysis.
• Work with controls engineers to document I/O lists, control logic descriptions, and system interfaces used by production.
• Participate in troubleshooting efforts, root-cause reviews, and data-quality improvement initiatives.
• Help develop templates, standards, or scripts for future controls and data-engineering work

Internship Expectations

• SCADA Tag Standardization Project: Assist in mapping existing tags, cleaning naming conventions, and ensuring alignment across systems.
• Utility Data Visibility Initiative: Help create dashboards for glycol/chilled water performance, pump operation trends, and alarms.
• Historian Data Audit: Support cleanup, verification, and reliability improvements for long-term plant data retention.
• Documentation Buildout: Create user-friendly documentation for controls, networks, and data flows used by engineering and maintenance.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Interest in SCADA systems, PLCs, industrial networking, or data engineering.
• Experience with Python, databases, or visualization tools is helpful but not required.
• Strong curiosity and willingness to learn how digital systems support physical manufacturing processes.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Strong communication and teamwork skills

Education and/or Experience

• Pursuing a B.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar.College Junior, senior, or graduate standing preferred

Additional Considerations

• Regular check-ins
• Feedback and mentoring sessions
• A final “Internship Impact” presentation summarizing their contributions
• Inter-departmental learning and exposure (Maintenance, Quality, Production)