Product Risk Engineering Intern

General Information

Country: USA

State: Michigan

City: Grand Rapids

Office

Location:

1101 - 1111 44th Street - - - - -

Date posted: 04-Sep-2026

Business Function: Other

Position Type: Intern

We are hiring a Product Risk Engineering Intern to lead and collaborate with other engineers on projects to understand and reduce product safety risk, improve product reliability and performance, and work with the laboratory to optimize product testing. You'll have an impact on the overall customer experience with our product while being a part of the Operations Excellence organization.

You’ll be working on high priority product risk projects tied to product safety, quality, and reliability with the goal to:

• Improve product quality performance and life of use without failures
• Enhance the customer experience in the use of our products
• Continuously improve our internal processes that we use to achieve these goals
• In partnership with other engineers, you’ll apply:
  • Engineering approaches, methods, and tools
  • Problem-solving techniques
  • Project management disciplines
  • Communication and teamwork skills in a collaborative work environment

The Product Risk Team is a part of the Operations Excellence group. Our team's goal is to improve the customer's experience by ensuring the highest product safety, overall quality, and reliability (ability to meet the customer's expectation for product performance for many years without degradation or failure). We use engineering principles along with robust technical problem-solving and optimization methods and tools to accomplish this.

We also work to continuously improve the way that we work by bringing in new methods and tools and optimizing our work processes.

You’ll be mentored and led by engineering technical professionals in a cross functional, collaborative environment. We believe you’ll enjoy this cross functional opportunity on these valuable projects. We enjoy working together as a team, and we partner with many other individuals and teams within Steelcase to get our work done.

• Are you passionate about improving customer's experience with products?
• Are you eager to apply your engineering knowledge and competency?
• Can you manage working with broad objectives to make them specific and actionable?
• Do you have a knack for math and science-based approaches to technical work?
• Do you have a real passion for technical problem-solving and optimization?
• Do you have strong competency to collaborate with both technical and non-technical team members?

• Pursuing a major in engineering towards a Bachelor's degree
• Must be graduating Winter 2028 or Spring 2029.
• Actively enrolled in a degree-seeking program at the time of application and throughout the duration of the internship.
• Reliable onsite vehicle transportation

Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Steelcase will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization and/or visas for this role.

• Pursuing a mechanical engineering degree
• A strong commitment to a career in technical engineering
• Experience using engineering technical tools and concepts (e.g., engineering disciplines, Excel, Minitab, JMP, etc.)
• Strong analytical and technical skills and experience
• Demonstrated creative problem solving and proactive learning
• Strong technical documentation and organizational skills
• Robust proficiency with computers, including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Experience working in a team-based environment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Prior intern, co-op, or research experience in engineering
• Leadership experience inside and/or outside the classroom
• Excel…