Engineering Co-Op (January-May 2027)
Posted Aug 31, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about an engineering project from school or a past job where you owned part of the outcome. What did you actually do?
What they are checking: Whether they can separate their own contribution from the team's, which shows they are ready to own a project here.
Tell me about a time you had to work with someone outside your field, like a technician or someone from quality, to solve a problem.
What they are checking: Whether they respect hands-on knowledge from technicians and other departments, since the team works closely with Quality and Planning.
Tell me about a mistake you made on a project and how you handled it.
What they are checking: Whether they own errors openly, which matters when work feeds into medical device manufacturing.
What would you do
A senior engineer gives you a project with very little direction. What do you do in your first week?
What they are checking: Whether they will ask good questions, gather data and propose a plan instead of waiting to be told every step.
You notice operators doing a step differently from the written procedure, and their way seems faster. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that in a regulated plant, a better method still has to go through change control before it is used.
This co-op runs January through May in Glens Falls. What do you hope to have finished by the time you leave?
What they are checking: Whether they think in terms of finishing something concrete rather than just gaining exposure.
About the work
The Namic site makes fluid delivery devices for angiographic procedures. Why does process validation matter so much for a product like that?
What they are checking: Whether they grasp that medical device processes must be proven to work every time because patients cannot absorb a defect.
How would you go about setting a work standard for an assembly step on a custom kit line?
What they are checking: Whether they know basic time study and work measurement, which the posting lists as part of the co-op scope.
Walk me through how you would build a simple cost-benefit analysis for buying a new piece of equipment.
What they are checking: Whether they can weigh savings, cost and payback in a structured way that a manager could act on.
What tools have you used for CAD, data analysis or statistics, and how did you use them on a real problem?
What they are checking: Whether their tool skills are practical enough to contribute from the first weeks of a five-month co-op.
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