Engineering Co-op (Fall 2025)

Solvita comes from “sol” meaning sun and “vita” meaning life. As sunlight nurtures new life, we take the donor gift and transform it into new hope, bringing the light of healing to patients around the globe in need of tissue transplants.
Because we believe that everyone deserves more time to live life to its fullest.

As an Engineering Co-op within the Process, Engineering & Development department at Solvita, students will be responsible for identifying and developing solutions to solve various challenges to optimize safety of our technicians, quality of our grafts, and efficiency of our operations. This role is critical to ensuring we maximize the gifts of tissue donation we are entrusted with and providing life-saving allografts to patients around the world.

The Engineering Co-op will:

• Work alongside both Manufacturing Engineers and Process Improvement Engineers to develop solutions to high priority challenges within operations including but not limited to: tissue recovery & chart evaluation, microbiology testing, clean room operations, post-production operations, quality control, and supply chain operations.
• Utilize SolidWorks 3D modeling for idealizing new and/or revised tooling designs to support manufacturing in transforming donated tissues into high-quality and high-precision allografts.
• Utilize SolidWorks to create engineering drawings and work with local machining and post-processing shops to develop prototypes and final concepts.
• Create and revise production SOPs and related documentation to transition new processes and equipment into production.
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify process improvements for various problems utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodologies
• Develop visuals (PowerPoint, PowerBi, Visio, etc.) for analyzing problem statements such as process/value stream maps, FMEA, fishbone diagrams, pareto charts, and trending graphs.
• Responsible for providing updates to various levels of leadership addressing overall project progression, barriers to implementation, and requests for additional resources if applicable.
• Ensures Good Documentation Practices (GDPs) and all quality guidelines, internal and external, are followed throughout projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering at an accredited university.
• Must remain actively enrolled in engineering program for the entire duration of the co-op assignment.
• At least 2nd year/sophomore student
• Must have at least 3 available co-op rotations
• Minimum GPA of 3.0

WORK ENVIRONMENT and PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

• Position requires exposure to gross anatomy.
• Must be able to meet the required physical demands with or without reasonable accommodation.
• FDA regulated environment

From one to many.
At Solvita, life transforms and reinvents. Solvita recovers, processes, and distributes human tissue grafts and is the nation’s largest non-profit provider of skin grafts for burn patients. When you come to work at Solvita, families make more memories. A patient gets another chance. Our partners have better solutions, and people have better outcomes. What you do here has a direct impact on lives around the world.

We offer:

• A highly competitive benefits package including: medical, dental, vision, life and supplemental insurance.
• 401(k) with employer contribution and match.
• On-Demand Pay - Reduce financial stress with on-demand pay access to your earned pay.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) - up to 5 weeks in your first year!
• Opportunities to participate in recreational activities such as Battle of the Businesses, special events such as Kings Island Day, Dayton Air Show and opportunities to give back to the community.
• Opportunities to join various employee committees, such as our benefit, recreation, employee engagement and community engagement committees.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law. Drug Free Workplace

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Eligible Employer