2025 Controls Engineering Summer Intern - Grand Rapids, MI

Country: USA

State: Michigan

City: Grand Rapids

Office Location: P.O. Box 1967 - - I - - -

Date posted: 27-Sep-2024

Business Function: Engineering

Position Type: Intern

We are hiring a 2025 Controls Engineering Summer Intern. This internship will provide you with hands on experience, which will offer you exposure to cutting-edge equipment and processes for

steel fabrication and woodworking. You will utilize your Electrical Engineering coursework to help develop custom equipment while using the latest controllers and smart sensor technologies. Additionally, you will work with and support our Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) related to remote monitoring of machine downtime and status events.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Working side by side with our senior level controls engineers to help design, program, test and debug industrial applications
• Utilizing AutoCAD to develop electrical schematic and Rockwell Studio 5000 to develop PLC applications & operator interfaces
• Working in a fast-paced environment collaborating with highly motived and skilled controls engineers

Your Future Team:

You will be a member of the Operations Engineering Team in the electrical controls and automation department. We pursue innovation, strive for sustainability and develop insights in every part of our business. We value high performance and high work ethic while avoiding burnout. We strive to establish a team with proven work/life balance.

Who You Are:

• Are you passionate about gaining hands-on electrical engineering experiences using industrial controls?
• Do you love writing customer machine logic?
• Are you eager to build hardware solutions that support factory automation?
• Are you strong willed?
• Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment?

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Currently enrolled in an applicable discipline from an accredited school
• Pursuing a degree in electrical engineering or a related degree

Preferred Skills and Competencies

• Reliable transportation to and from the office is recommended, many of our sites do not have access to public transportation. This internship may require daily movement between manufacturing facilities during work hours.
• Preferred graduation dates: Dec 2025 and May 2026
• GPA of 2.8 or higher is preferred
• Strong teamwork and communication skills
• This internship requires the student to be at a Steelcase facility each day

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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