Intern - Quality Engineer (Summer 2026)

About us: At Plexus, our vision is to help create the products that build a better world. Driven by a passion for excellence, we partner with leading Aerospace/Defense, Healthcare/Life Sciences and Industrial companies to design, manufacture and service some of the world's most transformative products, including advanced surgical systems, diagnostic instruments, healthcare imaging equipment, mission critical aerospace systems, and electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions. Visit Plexus.com to learn more about our unwavering commitment to our vision.

When we invest in our people, we invest in building a better world.

With a vision rooted in the wellbeing and inclusive engagement of our team members, our customers, their end users and our communities, people are the heart of what we do and who we are. It is our values that unite us and guide us in everything that we do, including how we operate, behave and interact to foster a workplace where every team member feels valued and empowered to contribute their best.

Our values include: Growing our People, Building Belonging, Innovating Responsibly, Delivering Excellence and Creating Customer Success.

As a team member, you will engage in impactful work through global collaboration and the use of emerging technologies, join an inclusive culture where every team member is valued and working toward a greater purpose, and be empowered to reach your full potential through various development programs designed to accelerate your growth.

Plexus offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support team members' wellbeing, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, retirement savings, and opportunities for professional development. We also prioritize work-life balance and offer a variety of perks to enhance the team member experience. For more information, visit our US benefits website at usbenefits.plexus.com. Our commitment to pay range transparency fosters an equitable workplace, where everyone can feel valued. This is an internship position (Non-Exempt Salary); the hourly range is stated below. The rate offered within this range will be based upon the geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level. Hourly Rate:

Purpose Statement: The Quality Intern is responsible to support and learn about the processes involved in ensuring product quality. This may include tasks such as testing, analyzing data, identifying defects, and collaborating with the team to enhance product quality.

Key Job Accountabilities:

• Quality Assurance: Ensure continuous quality compliance during manufacturing operations. Monitor on-going manufacturing operations to ensure quality issues are quickly addressed; provide quality alerts and lead containment and purges, when required. Lead the development of the inspection strategy for receiving inspection, pre-ship inspection, and out-of-box-audits. Ensure Certificates of Compliance are created and maintained, including documentation of deviations. Ensure creation and maintenance of manufacturing quality history documentation, as required.
• Support Quality Engineering initiatives.
• Development of Quality initiatives.
• Quality; Understands and follows Plexus quality policy guidelines, customer specifications and adheres to regulatory compliance, Monitors own work to ensure quality standard is met, Looks for opportunities to improve quality and eliminate waste at work, Delivers work in way a that eliminates scrap or rework, Keeps supervisors informed and escalates issues when needed
• Drive Proactive Continuous Improvement on Yield & Quality Metrics; Designing templates for documents, file types, and document databases, Driving the cross-functional team to deliver continual improvement activities for internal processes deliverables
• Provide Supervision to QA Inspectors/Technicians; Guide QA operators/group leaders/technicians in ongoing quality improvement activities

Education/Experience Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required; a Bachelor's degree in Engineering is preferred
• no related experience is required
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key job accountabilities may be considered.

Other Qualifications:

• Role will work in an electro-mechanical manufacturing environment with required personal protective equipment.
• Facilities include comfortable temperatures, repetitive low noise level and suitable lighting for required tasks.
• May require physical stamina with strong manual dexterity and fine motor control with precise measurement equipment or delicate tools and components requiring a steady touch.
• Visual inspection may require acute near vision and the ability to work continually using magnifiers, cameras and other vision systems.
• Role will spend a majority of the time standing and sitting with limited activities including lifting packages, moving material and working around lifting and material movement equipment as needed.
• Role may include repetitive computer tasks in different types of software creating, editing and saving quality records.

Physical Requirements:

• N/A

Travel Requirements:

• Less than 40%

This document does not represent a contract of employment and is not intended to capture every possible assignment the incumbent could be asked to perform.

We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities or special requirements. If you need an application accommodation, please contact us by email at GHQ.TA@plexus.com. Please include your contact information and clearly describe how we can help you. This email is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Some offers of employment are contingent upon successfully passing a drug screen and/or background check.