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Assembly Intern

CompanyJENOPTIK AG
LocationAuburn Hills
Work ModeOn Site
PostedMay 1, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The Assembly Intern is responsible for balancing and testing pneumatic measurement tools while performing mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical sub-assemblies. They will also integrate commercial components into tooling and ensure accuracy and repeatability through rigorous testing.
Internship Type
full time
Company Size
1780
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Jenoptik – MORE LIGHT. We are a company where bright ideas are born. Changing the world with light demands for an exploring spirit. Discover challenges the world is facing, at Jenoptik you change the world. 💡PHOTONICS: Optical technologies are at the heart of our business. Explore the variety of our photonics-based products and services: We’re on Mars with NASA. We’re behind the quality of your smartphone camera lenses. We enable smart manufacturing with laser & metrology solutions customized to your manufacturing environment. We make roads and communities safer. 🚀MARKETS: Our key target markets primarily include the semiconductor equipment industry, electronics, life science and medical technology, metrology as well as smart mobility incl. road traffic safety and civil security. 🌎LOCATIONS: The Jenoptik Group headquarters are in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Next to our major sites in Germany, we maintain production and assembly sites in the USA, France, the United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific. 🌳SUSTAINABILITY: Together with our customers, we create forward-looking trends in the fields of energy efficiency, healthcare, the environment, mobility, and safety. With our products we can make significant contributions to meeting the societal challenges we face as well as to the conservation and efficient use of resources. 🌈INCLUSION: As an international company with about 4,600 employees, we are aware of our responsibility to create an appreciative and unprejudiced working environment and support diversity, equity and inclusion in our teams. We are committed to increasing the number of international und female managers in our company and signed the “Charta der Vielfalt”, an employer initiative for diversity, in 2020. Grow with leading and bright ideas. Become a JENIUS. Impressum, Legal Notice: https://www.jenoptik.com/legal-notice
About the Role

 

SUMMARY:

The primary role of the Assembly Technician is to balance and test pneumatic measurement tools as well as read and understand mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical assemblies.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES (INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDITIONAL RESPONSBILITIES MAY BE ASSIGNED):

  • Assembly technicians responsible for the   mechanical & pneumatic sub-assemblies, including machine tooling and gauge heads
  • To Inspect and balance pneumatic measurement tools
  • Calculate air consumption and flow-rates
  • Perform accuracy and repeatability tests on pneumatic measurement tools as well as others
  • Integration of a variety of commercial components into tooling, machines, and solutions
  • Customer interaction with finished product
  • Work in and maintain a clean and orderly workspace
  • Understand a “Process-driven” work environment for your team.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES (INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO):

 

Help others in final assembly as required.

Manage supplies required for position (filters, O-rings, etc.)

 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:   N/A

 

REQUIREMENTS

  • Should possess strong basic math skills including algebra and trigonometry
  • Dimensional Metrology
  • Basic GD&T (Geometric tolerance)
  • Basic Measurements
  • Basic use of shop tools (Micrometers, Calipers, Height gages, Dial indicators)
  • Basic knowledge of transducers, transducer to PC interface methods, columns, and computers
  • Must be able to read Mechanical, Pneumatic & Electrical blueprints
  • Understanding of measurements
  • Capable and willing for some international travel

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use of hands or fingers to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and keyboarding; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk and hear.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.



 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

 

  • Must possess a High School Diploma or GED
  • Some technical schooling is a plus
  • At least six months’ experience in an automotive manufacturing environment

 

Key Skills
Pneumatic measurement toolsMechanical assemblyPneumatic assemblyElectrical assemblyDimensional metrologyGD&TMicrometersCalipersHeight gagesDial indicatorsBlueprint readingAlgebraTrigonometryTransducersAir consumption calculation
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