Mativ Careers

Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges.

Position Title: Mechanical Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

Location: Whiting, WI

Description:

We are actively pursuing interns with Mechanical Engineering background to complete a 10 plus week internship program at our Whiting Mill starting in May 2025. The internship will provide exposure to many aspects of operations including a multi-functional team setting, real time production, process experience and project work with specific deliverables and exposure to the mill leadership team. Interns will participate in mills and production line operations to learn technical properties and quality issues of paper or paper-based materials.

Ideal candidates will possess high initiative and drive, with a curiosity to perpetually learn and improve our business. Key requirements include the ability to analyze information to find opportunities, effectively communicate, and work collaboratively in a team setting.

responsibilities:

• Work with Engineering and Operations team on process efficiency improvements, cost savings and/or technology advancement.
• Attending meetings with leadership team, reporting out and assigned tasks from meeting.
• Work with engineers and identify improvement solutions.
• Participate in new customer/vendor trials.
• Work with leadership to modify or create standard operating procedures.
• Project work as assigned by mill management.

qualifications:

Required

• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Individual must be currently enrolled and working toward a degree with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering discipline.
• Student will need to have completed a minimum of 1-full years of course work with preference for individuals who have completed 2-full years.
• Preference is a minimum 3.0 GPA in your academic field of study.
• Must have solid Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel.
• Ideal candidates will possess high initiative and drive, with a curiosity to perpetually learn and improve our business.
• Key requirements include the ability to analyze information to find opportunities, effectively synthesize and communicate findings, and work collaboratively in a team setting.

Position Demands

Conditions are that of a manufacturing environment:

• Air Temperatures can range from cold to hot.
• Atmosphere may contain dust, fumes, and odors.
• May include mechanical, electrical, chemical, explosive and radiation hazards.

Employees are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including:

• Safety shoes (steel toe or composite toe)
• Safety Glasses
• Hearing Protection
• Protective Gloves, when performing certain tasks
• Bump Caps, when necessary
• Other personal protective equipment as required for certain tasks.

While performing the duties of this job the employee must meet the physical demands:

•          Routinely stand, sit, hear, walk, and talk.

•          Reach, climb, bend, kneel, crouch, twist, and balance, sometimes in awkward or tight spaces.

•          Have good close vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

What we offer

As a Mativ intern, you’ll have:

• Paid holidays
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Safety shoe reimbursement

Rate of pay ranges from $22/hour to $26/hour depending upon experience.

ABOUT MATIV

Mativ Holdings, Inc. is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The company makes material impacts on the world every day through a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We manufacture on three continents and generate sales in nearly 100 countries through our family of business-to-business and consumer product brands. The company’s two segments, Filtration & Advanced Materials and Sustainable & Adhesive Solutions, target premium applications across diversified and growing end-markets, from filtration to healthcare to sustainable packaging and more. Our broad portfolio of technologies combines polymers, fibers, and resins to optimize the performance of our customers’ products across multiple stages of the value chain. Our leading positions are a testament to our best-in-class global manufacturing, supply chain, and materials science capabilities. We drive innovation and enhance performance, finding potential in the impossible.

Mativ and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.