Mercury Marine: Industrial Design Intern

Position Overview

As part of the Industrial Design team at Mercury, as a design intern, you will be engaged in both conceptual and production work that enables the best designs for Mercury's marine-specific products. This role supports Industrial Design, and interfaces with Engineering and Product Integration team members. In your daily work, you will be supporting Mercury Marine's premium brand and performance expectations.

Essential Functions

• Create concepts both in 2D and 3D to convey ideas/design intent
• Utilize your design skills to generate ideas and concepts, while respecting project requirements and research data to enable these ideas to be usable for marine propulsion systems, marine controls, and associated components
• Support weekly design critiques on active projects
• Rapid visualization using both physical and digital tools
• Create Color, Materials, and Finishes (CMF) concepts/proposals
• Afford assistance with various assignments on propulsion systems, product graphics and controls projects

Required Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in an accredited university studying toward a bachelor’s degree for Industrial Design
• Candidates should be ready to demonstrate an imaginative mindset looking to solve both conceptually based challenges and real-world program challenges with a willingness to embrace multiple projects
• Strong abilities in sketching, form development, surface interest and proportions
• Solid knowledge of design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Product concepting including sketches, renderings and model building (digital and physical)
• Clear communicator, motivated and ambitious, with a user-centric mindset
• Proficient in MS Office, preferably Power Point, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook
• Minimum second semester sophomore status with 48 completed credits
• Availability to work full-time (40 or more hours per week) during the the months May through August of 2027

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrating knowledge of design industry modeling-rendering software- Keyshot/Alias/Vizcom
• Observation/documentation skills of competitive trends in design segments/ industries
• Graphic design knowledge using Illustrator for vector art development, typeface design

Creation of Color, Materials, and Finishes (CMF) concepts/proposals

Affords assistance with various assignments on propulsion systems, product graphics and controls projects.

Why Brunswick

Whatever tomorrow brings, we'll be at the leading edge. As the clear leader in the marine industry, we're committed to our values and supporting our exceptional people. We offer and encourage growth opportunities within and across our many brands. In addition, we're proud of being recognized for making a splash with numerous awards!

About Mercury Marine

Headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Mercury Marine® is the world's leading manufacturer of recreational marine propulsion engines. A division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), Mercury provides engines, boats, services and parts for recreational, commercial and government marine applications. Mercury empowers boaters with products that are easy to use, extremely reliable and backed by the most dedicated customer support in the world. The company's industry-leading brand portfolio includes Mercury outboard engines, Mercury MerCruiser® sterndrive and inboard packages, Mercury propellers, Mercury inflatable boats, Mercury SmartCraft® electronics, Land 'N' Sea marine parts distribution and Mercury and Quicksilver® parts and oils. More information is available at MercuryMarine.com.

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