Product Intern (Defense)

Location: New Hudson, Michigan, United States; work is typically performed in a team-based office environment. Travel of up to 20% may be required for customer and supplier meetings, training, testing, and industry conferences.

Salary: $18.00–$37.00 per hour

Company

Product development organization delivering engineering, prototype manufacturing, testing, validation, and low-rate production solutions for motorsports, defense, and mobility products.

What you will do

• Manage program requirements and product work-products throughout the full lifecycle.
• Participate in prototype design, build, testing, development, fabrication, manufacturing, and assembly activities.
• Create and maintain BOMs, support supplier selection and production parts procurement, and collaborate with purchasing.
• Track product cost targets, quality metrics, warranty, scrap, obsolescence, and spares activity.
• Determine corrective actions, generate ECRs, and ensure prototype designs transfer effectively to low-rate production.
• Lead core production meetings, coordinate cross-functional teams, support customer interfaces, and serve as the product expert.

Requirements

• Broad knowledge of automotive or military vehicle systems engineering.
• Knowledge of product development tools and processes, with proficiency in ERP tools and Microsoft Office.
• Strong technical writing, communication, organization, customer service, multitasking, and independent working skills.
• Understanding of ITAR licensing classifications.
• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.

Nice to have

• Low-volume production program experience.
• CAD and GD&T experience.
• Defense industry, vehicle or system testing, manufacturing engineering, or Logistics Product Data process experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, team-based office environment.
• Challenging projects with opportunities to learn from a wide range of expertise.
• People-first culture with opportunities to support professional growth and success.
• Potential travel for customer and supplier meetings, off-site training and testing, and industry conferences.