2025 Mechanical Designer Summer Intern - Grand Rapids, MI
Steelcase
Design
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Posted on Saturday, August 31, 2024
We are hiring a 2025 Mechanical Designer Sumer Intern – Grand Rapids, MI that will own valuable mechanical design projects that provide new value to the company. You will be provided with mentorship through the development and design lifecycle with a keen focus on sustainability. We have a major focus on learning by doing. CAD will be a primary focus of the role, but you will also be exposed to brainstorming, cost analysis, the product development process, prototyping, and document control processes.
You’ll learn quickly this company offers a diversity of products and materiality. While you design the product, you will learn and apply the design thinking process.
You will experience Steelcase’s mechanical design process, including:
- Ideation
- Bill-of-Material Structuring
- Designing Concepts and Ideas: Surfacing, Sheet Metal, Solid Modeling, Drafting,
- Document control
- Prototyping
We believe you’ll appreciate the balance of individual work with multi-functional projects, with teams made up of engineers, industrial designers, model makers, and more.
Your Future Team:
You will join one of the many Steelcase development teams relating to furniture, seating, health care, education, etc. Additionally, we believe our mechanical designing atmosphere mirrors the culture of Steelcase with people who are inclusive, open to questions, hungry for new insights, respectful, experts in their fields, and kind.
Who You Are:
- Are you eager to learn our product development and design process?
- Are you curious?
- Are you a self-starter?
- Is your mechanical proficiency strong (creative, can think critically and apply it to design)?
- Do you have desire to apply your 3D modeling/CAD experience?
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Current or recent high school graduate with emphasis in Computer Aided Design (CAD) or student pursuing an associate’s degree in mechanical design
- Course completion: Two courses focused on CAD software at the high school or college level, preferably one with SolidWorks or Creo
- Preferred: experience in rapid prototyping methods (3D Printing, Lathe, CNC, etc.)
- Preferred: experience helping teach CAD software
- Nice to have: certified in a 3D modeling software
Why People Choose to Work with Us:
At Steelcase, we put people at the center of everything we do. We understand the role of work and believe that it can bring meaning and purpose to the lives of our customers and our employees. We prioritize supporting our employees both in and out of work, in all aspects of their lives. When we bring our talents together, we make a positive lasting impact through our work and communities.
As a Steelcase intern, you will gain real-world, hands-on experience and be treated as an equal member of the team from day one. You will be welcomed into a family network that extends beyond your business function into an interdisciplinary network of experts in their fields.
Who We Are:
Steelcase is a global design and thought leader in the world of work. Along with our expansive community of brands, we design and manufacture innovative furnishings and solutions to help people do their best work in the many places where work happens.
What Matters to Us:
More than qualifications, we’re looking for talent and potential. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we're always looking to improve our global community. We value applicants who are comfortable interacting with people different from themselves, building mutual respect and positive relationships. We invite people from all backgrounds and genders to apply. If we can make the application process easier through accommodation, please email us at myhr@steelcase.com.
Steelcase provides employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, genetic information, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or veteran status and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. We are proud to be recognized for our inclusive workforce by the Corporate Equality Index for the past nine years.
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