MillerKnoll Summer Internship Program is a paid opportunity that allows you to gain real-world experience and cultivate your professional skills. Besides the work you’ll do within your field of study, you'll participate in one-on-one meetings with mentors, a summer-long project, learning sessions with senior leaders, and much more.
About This Opportunity
MillerKnoll’s Summer Internship Program is a paid, 12-week opportunity that provides a 100% real-world experience for students early in their careers. Throughout the summer you will apply academic learning to real-world situations and cultivate leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Design Within Reach is looking for an industrial or furniture designer to join our team to assist with the design of products across furniture, lighting, and textiles.
This role will be focused on developing new design concepts, bringing expertise in ideation through sketching, developing CAD drawings, hands-on prototyping, and documentation of technical details. This role attends meetings and maintains close collaboration with cross-functional teams, external partners, and manufacturers, ensuring maintenance of the company’s ethos through effective communication, proactive research, creative thinking, problem solving, and organizational skills. This role is based in Stamford, CT with 4 days in-office (with flexibility for one day per week in New York City).
Responsibilities
Research: Find innovative and sustainable new materials, finishes and mechanisms, consulting with partners across the MillerKnoll enterprise.
Design: Concept development, visual communication, and creation of 3D and 2D files, with exceptional skills in digital rendering and hand sketching.
Collaboration: Work closely with internal design, merchandising, and product development teams to bring new and innovative design concepts to market. This role will facilitate communication cross-functionally, and proactively contribute to creative thinking and technical knowledge.
Mechanical Aptitude: Maintain technical specifications and requirements, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with industry standards. Produce technical drawings ensuring compliance with manufacturing standards and design guidelines. Attention to detail and accuracy ensuring up-to-date information and accessibility of drawings.
Growth Mindset: Identify opportunities to enhance company processes, improve accuracy, and streamline workflows to deliver to the studio’s highest design standards.
Industry Savvy: Stay updated on new products entering the market and research archival designs to ensure authenticity within our product line. Research innovative and sustainable new materials, finishes, manufacturing techniques, and mechanisms, consulting with partners across the MillerKnoll enterprise. Have awareness of industry standards in architecture, design, furniture, and consumer products, across macro and emerging trends to drive innovation and enhance design capabilities.
Qualifications/ Skills
- Excellent 3D modeling (Fusion 360 or Blender preferred), and Adobe Creative Suite skills.
- Excellent visual communication skills across 2D and 3D platforms, both digital and physical.
- Excellent creative thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Understanding of design principles, aesthetics, cultural trends, and design history.
- Positive and professional attitude, with a willingness to learn.
- Understanding of manufacturing and craft techniques (with preferred hands-on experience with sewing, wood working, metal working, ceramics, or other)
Education/ Experience
- Attending school for a degree in Industrial Design or related field required.
- Experience working in cross-functional team environments.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to investigate and analyze information to make recommendations
- Demonstrated growth potential and market research experience preferred.
- You must have a GPA of at least 3.0 (overall or within your program) to qualify for consideration in the Intern Program.
- Must have satisfactorily completed basic coursework in the chosen degree program.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.
Our Values
Our values speak to our shared beliefs. They describe how we live our purpose through the way we lead, the way we see one another, and the way we approach our work.
We are difference-makers reflects our commitments to creating places that matter, to being a good neighbor in our communities, and to using business as a force for good.
We are all extraordinary is our statement about the worth of individuals and our commitment to helping everyone reach their full potential.
We are better together demonstrates how challenging one another, making room for everyone, and working and winning as one makes us stronger.
At MillerKnoll, when we come together—as a family of brands or as an individual work team—the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts. As our values state, “We are better together” when we welcome everyone to the table, keep our commitments to one another, and work and win as one. This idea expresses our spirit of accountability, friendly competition, and inclusivity. A culture of inclusion is critical to our success—both because it makes us better and because it's the right thing to do.
We wish you success in your MillerKnoll journey!
Who We Hire?
Simply put, we hire everyone. MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.
A starting compensation range for this role is $22.25 - $26.45. Relevant salary considerations will include candidate qualifications and experience, other business/organizational needs and market factors . You may also be eligible to receive a geographic premium, annual discretionary incentive and equity awards which are subject to the rules governing these programs. The company offers a full spectrum of benefits including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Vacation and Parental Leave), Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our associates.
This organization participates in E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification. In general, MillerKnoll positions are closed within 45 days and are open for applications for a minimum of 5 days. We encourage our prospective candidates to submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities. We frequently post new opportunities and encourage prospective candidates to check back often for new postings.
MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at careers_help@millerknoll.com.
