Sustainability Engineer Intern
You can have an internship. Or you can make a difference. Or you can work as a Sustainability Engineer Intern at Herman Miller and do both.
About this Opportunity
Herman Miller’s Summer Internship Program is a paid, 12-week opportunity that provides a 100% real-world experience for students early in their career. Throughout the summer you will apply academic learning to real-world situations and cultivate leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
As a Sustainability Engineer Intern, you will develop, grow, and support different areas of sustainability for our global organization with a strong reputation in sustainability.
What You'll Do
You'll have opportunities to speak up, solve problems, influence others, and be an owner every day as you...
- Support Herman Miller’s sustainability effort, strategy, and goals as well as product sustainability stewardship.
- Support life cycle assessment work to evaluate alternatives for materials used.
- Work in a role that is tailored to develop and enhance your sustainability knowledge.
- Help conduct surveys and use tools and reports to measure the environmental impact of products.
- Work with a cross-functional team to complete an intern project.
- Gain on-the-job work experience aligned with your career goals.
- Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business goals.
Sound Like You?
You might be just who we're looking for if you are...
- Passionate about sustainability.
- Driven, motivated, and able to collaborate as well as work independently.
- Experienced with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Experience with life cycle analysis and assessment tools such as GaBi and SimaPro.
- Enrolled and pursuing a four-year Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Sustainability, Environmental Studies, or a related field from an accredited college or university, and able to provide transcripts upon request. You'll need a GPA of at least a 3.0 (cumulative or within your major) to qualify for consideration.
- Satisfactorily finished with the basic coursework in your chosen degree program.
- In favorable academic standing within your current academic program.
- Authorized to work in the United States.
- Able to perform all essential responsibilities of the position with or without accommodations.
Who We Are
At Herman Miller, our unique culture represents the collective attitudes, ideas, and experiences of the people who work here. We focus on protecting the environment, impacting our communities, exceeding the expectations of our customers through high quality products, and championing diversity in all areas of the business, and together we are on a journey toward a better world. We support the well-being of our employees in and outside of work by providing a variety of opportunities including award-winning work-life integration resources, development programs, complex health and wellness offerings, and much more.
Herman Miller is a globally recognized provider of furnishings and related technologies and services. Headquartered in West Michigan, we have relied on innovative design for over 100 years to solve problems for people wherever they work, live, learn, and heal.
Herman Miller is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.