Undergraduate Engineering Intern - Project Management

Mayo Clinic; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Mayo Clinic Engineering is seeking an Engineering Intern for a full-time, on-site Summer-Fall 2027 internship in Rochester, Minnesota. The role involves assisting project managers, developing schedules, and drafting project requirements within a medical device development context.

Mentors will guide learning and performance, with assignments including project strategy, requirements gathering, and design reviews.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong technical writing ability for documenting requirements and reports.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and work independently.

Responsibilities

• Support project managers by helping develop and maintain project schedules and budgets.
• Draft project requirements and product documentation; draft and analyze reports and dashboards.
• Assist in gathering stakeholder needs, metrics, and specifications for medical device development.

Job description

This undergraduate internship is a full-time position Summer-Fall 2027 (May or June through December) on site in Rochester, Minnesota. Some interns have been able to maintain an on-line evening college course, but accepting this position requires the intern to not pursue any significant coursework for the summer or fall of 2027.

The Mayo Clinic Engineering team is looking for an intern to assist our full-time project managers. The primary purpose of the Engineering Internship is to provide students with relevant engineering experiences.

The position offers a wide range of job responsibilities, including: implementing improved portfolio management processes; assisting project managers in developing and maintaining project schedules and budgets; communicating with stakeholders (including clinicians and researchers) and drafting project requirements; drafting product documentation (technical writing); gathering metrics to track progress toward strategic goals; helping develop and document best practices in product development; and creating custom reports related to the project portfolio to help make strategic decisions.

Mentors will be assigned to provide instruction, guidance and to assess performance. The intern is responsible for learning the Engineering team’s procedures and processes.The intern will be given work assignments to reinforce the learning experience and to provide benefit to the work unit as well as providing an opportunity to present their work accomplishments in an end of term presentation. The assignments may include developing a project strategy, creating and managing project schedules, gathering user needs, requirements and specifications, evaluating commercial components, performing design verification and design validation, and participating in design reviews. Assignments are within the context of Engineering’s Quality Management System (including safety risk management) and are performed in a multi-disciplinary development engineering environment. The intern will be responsible for completing all internship-related assignments and reports for both Mayo Clinic and the participating educational facility (if applicable).

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; have strong technical writing skills and be able to author technical documents;demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across teams; work independently; have experience in new product development; have experience with project management tools (e.g. ClickUp, Microsoft Project); have proficiency in Microsoft applications such as Office, SharePoint, Teams, and Excel to manage data and create reports; and have a desire to learn about medical device development.

The candidate will learn development processes and documentation requirements of medical device creation; gain experience conducting stakeholder interviews to elicit needs and requirements; lead meetings to gather content for product support documentation, verification, and validation; gain project hours that would provide experience needed for pursuing the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.