Intern– Industrial Engineering – Colorado Springs, CO – Summer 2026

Job Description

Intern – Industrial Engineering – Colorado Springs, CO – Summer 2026 | Philips

The Tone:
This is an Internship opportunity with Philips, located in Colorado Springs, CO, specifically for the Summer 2026 period. Philips operates as a leading HealthTech company, deeply committed to the belief that every human deserves access to quality healthcare, building its entire company around this principle. This internship offers a unique chance to gain meaningful, hands-on experience within our manufacturing operations, allowing you to directly contribute to improving efficiency and supporting our overarching mission to enhance lives globally.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time, Seasonal
• Location: In-person, Colorado Springs, CO
• Pay: $24–$28 hourly
• Team: Supports Manufacturing Engineering and Production Management teams.
• Mission: Assess manufacturing capacity and improve workload balance to enhance overall production efficiency and flow.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office suite

What You’ll Actually Do
• Time Studies: Conduct thorough time studies directly on the manufacturing floor to gather critical operational data.
• Data Conversion: Translate the findings from time studies into actionable Yamazumi charts and clearly defined work-breakdown elements for process analysis.
• Capacity Assessment: Provide essential, direct support to the Manufacturing Engineering team to effectively assess current production capacity.
• Workload Improvement: Collaborate with Production Management to analyze data and implement improvements aimed at optimizing workload balance across operations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently pursuing an undergraduate (BS) or graduate (MS) degree, with a primary field of study in Industrial Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering.
• Experience: Demonstrated basic experience in conducting process time studies, which will be directly applicable to daily tasks.
• Skills: Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite for data analysis and communication; strong ability to communicate clearly and effectively in both written and verbal formats; a proactive and self-starting work ethic to drive tasks independently; flexibility to adjust working hours across either 1st shift (05:00 to 15:30) or 2nd shift (14:00 to 22:00) to collect necessary data; and the capability to work daily on the production floor within a cleanroom environment, engaging professionally with operators, engineers, production leads, supervisors, and managers.