What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fall 2025 R&D Materials Research Co-op/Intern_Greenville, SC position at Michelin?
Michelin is hiring!
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KEY EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
THE OPPORTUNITY
Michelin has Fall 2025 openings for an Engineering Internship / Co-Op in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Materials Science. This opportunity is located at our MARC site. Students will be responsible for working on a project team to analyze data, improve production and quality performance. Michelin’s purpose is to support everyone’s right to move freely to find their better way forward. If respect for people, teamwork and trust are some values you live by you should consider joining us, the Worldwide leader in Tires!
Michelin, the leading mobility company, is working with tires, around tires and beyond tires to enable Motion for Life. Dedicated to enhancing its clients’ mobility and sustainability, Michelin designs and distributes the most suitable tires, services and solutions for its customers’ needs. Michelin provides digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences. Bringing its expertise to new markets, the company is investing in high-technology materials, 3D printing and hydrogen, to serve a wide variety of industries – from aerospace to biotech.
Get in the driver’s seat and be on your way to a meaningful professional journey!
What Will You Do
Project 1 - Study the scale-up of production processes from lab to pilot to industry. Research the impact of process levers on flexible composite performance via parametric studies. Create, innovate, and test your solutions at Michelin Americas Research Center. Join our team and collaborate with experts in the development of composite materials.
Project 2 - Explore the latest in sustainable, nano-materials, and Michelin proprietary raw materials in the exploration of new flexible elastomeric composites. Create, innovate, and test your solutions at Michelin Americas Research Center. Join our team and collaborate with experts in the development of composite materials.
Project 3 - Explore new design spaces and further exploit formulation levers in Michelin's development of new materials to meet the demands of future products. Create, innovate, and test your solutions at Michelin Americas Research Center. Join our team to collaborate with experts in the development of composite materials.
Inspire Motion for Life: Apply Today!
As the leading mobility company, we work with tires, around tires and beyond tires to enable Motion for Life. Dedicated to enhancing our clients’ mobility and sustainability, Michelin designs and distributes the most suitable tires, services and solutions for our customers’ needs. Michelin provides digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences. Bringing our expertise to new markets, we invest in high-technology materials, 3D printing and hydrogen, to serve a wide a variety of industries—from aerospace to biotech. Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Michelin North America has approximately 23,000 employees and operates 34 production facilities in the United States and Canada.
MICHELIN® tires have been ranked the #1 Tire Brand across major categories and segments by industry experts and consumers alike. For nearly three decades we’ve been recognized for our achievements in Customer Satisfaction, Performance, Durability, Technology and Innovation.
Michelin cares for the personal and professional development of its employees. We support career advancement through various options, which include: skill and career development, training, career exploration and work with cross-functional teams. We offer the possibility of a varied and fulfilling career path in an environment where unique contributions are valued.
Michelin offers 10 Business Resource Groups (BRGs) which are all-inclusive groups created and led by employees who have shared life experiences across various diversity dimensions. Each group supports business strategies and initiatives along with meeting the needs of members. The goal of each group is to help employees feel welcome and included, support employee engagement and encourage professional development. BRGs also provide cross-cultural support, career management resources and opportunities for community involvement.
Michelin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit-based factors. Consistent with these obligations, Michelin also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need accommodation for any part of the employment process because of a disability, please contact us at accommodations@michelin.com.
This position is not available for immigration sponsorship.
Get in the driver’s seat and be on your way to a meaningful professional journey!
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KEY EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
THE OPPORTUNITY
Michelin has Fall 2025 openings for an Engineering Internship / Co-Op in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Materials Science. This opportunity is located at our MARC site. Students will be responsible for working on a project team to analyze data, improve production and quality performance. Michelin’s purpose is to support everyone’s right to move freely to find their better way forward. If respect for people, teamwork and trust are some values you live by you should consider joining us, the Worldwide leader in Tires!
Michelin, the leading mobility company, is working with tires, around tires and beyond tires to enable Motion for Life. Dedicated to enhancing its clients’ mobility and sustainability, Michelin designs and distributes the most suitable tires, services and solutions for its customers’ needs. Michelin provides digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences. Bringing its expertise to new markets, the company is investing in high-technology materials, 3D printing and hydrogen, to serve a wide variety of industries – from aerospace to biotech.
Get in the driver’s seat and be on your way to a meaningful professional journey!
What Will You Do
- Provide leadership, support, and direction to empower wage production operators to achieve their common objectives.
- Work effectively with maintenance, quality, and other cross functional teams to meet daily/annual performance goals and continuous improvement/progress efforts.
- Monitor the short and long-term needs of the facility to ensure succession needs are met and employees are afforded opportunities for development and career growth.
- Facilitate the identification and implementation of process and team improvements.
- A willingness to work in an industrial plant environment (Monday-Friday on day shift).
- The ability to interact in a professional manner with external partners, suppliers, customers, and colleagues.
- Success in working with other people or team to meet a common objective.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office® Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to learn other software systems.
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
- Currently enrolled full time at an accredited four-year college or university.
- US citizen, permanent resident or otherwise authorized to work for Michelin on an ongoing, indefinite basis. This position is not available for immigration sponsorship.
Project 1 - Study the scale-up of production processes from lab to pilot to industry. Research the impact of process levers on flexible composite performance via parametric studies. Create, innovate, and test your solutions at Michelin Americas Research Center. Join our team and collaborate with experts in the development of composite materials.
Project 2 - Explore the latest in sustainable, nano-materials, and Michelin proprietary raw materials in the exploration of new flexible elastomeric composites. Create, innovate, and test your solutions at Michelin Americas Research Center. Join our team and collaborate with experts in the development of composite materials.
Project 3 - Explore new design spaces and further exploit formulation levers in Michelin's development of new materials to meet the demands of future products. Create, innovate, and test your solutions at Michelin Americas Research Center. Join our team to collaborate with experts in the development of composite materials.
Inspire Motion for Life: Apply Today!
As the leading mobility company, we work with tires, around tires and beyond tires to enable Motion for Life. Dedicated to enhancing our clients’ mobility and sustainability, Michelin designs and distributes the most suitable tires, services and solutions for our customers’ needs. Michelin provides digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences. Bringing our expertise to new markets, we invest in high-technology materials, 3D printing and hydrogen, to serve a wide a variety of industries—from aerospace to biotech. Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Michelin North America has approximately 23,000 employees and operates 34 production facilities in the United States and Canada.
MICHELIN® tires have been ranked the #1 Tire Brand across major categories and segments by industry experts and consumers alike. For nearly three decades we’ve been recognized for our achievements in Customer Satisfaction, Performance, Durability, Technology and Innovation.
Michelin cares for the personal and professional development of its employees. We support career advancement through various options, which include: skill and career development, training, career exploration and work with cross-functional teams. We offer the possibility of a varied and fulfilling career path in an environment where unique contributions are valued.
Michelin offers 10 Business Resource Groups (BRGs) which are all-inclusive groups created and led by employees who have shared life experiences across various diversity dimensions. Each group supports business strategies and initiatives along with meeting the needs of members. The goal of each group is to help employees feel welcome and included, support employee engagement and encourage professional development. BRGs also provide cross-cultural support, career management resources and opportunities for community involvement.
Michelin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit-based factors. Consistent with these obligations, Michelin also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need accommodation for any part of the employment process because of a disability, please contact us at accommodations@michelin.com.
This position is not available for immigration sponsorship.
Get in the driver’s seat and be on your way to a meaningful professional journey!
