Sustainability & ESG Co-Op 2026

Job title: Sustainability & ESG Co-Op 2026

About the Role The Sustainability & ESG Co-Op at Nexteer Automotive offers high-potential students meaningful opportunities to apply classroom learning in a professional environment while gaining hands-on experience and valuable industry exposure. The program is cross-functional and includes sustainability, supply chain, information systems, data analytics, ESG risk management, and engineering. The Co-Op reports to the Executive Director of Sustainability & ESG and supports global sustainability initiatives at Nexteer.

What You'll Do

• Support cross-functional Sustainability Work Group (SWG) initiatives: Collaborate with relevant processes from scope setting, benchmarking, and analyses.
• Assist in managing sustainability-related risks and controls, and validate ESG information for continual improvement to support informed decisions.
• Assist ESG benchmarking and data analytics projects: Gather unstructured data for a consolidated tracker of sustainability performance, such as energy efficiency, carbon emission, and sustainable procurement.
• Collaborate with IT and business functions to develop visualization tools/dashboards for business decision-makers.
• Capture key takeaways and knowledge transfer: Work with internal and external subject matter experts (SMEs) to enable organizational capacity and competencies building.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders: Explore and develop projects focused on ESG risk management and data analytics.
• Conduct exploratory research on sustainability topics: Gather stakeholder requirements and collect information to support the identification of important trends and action plans to drive efficiency opportunities and mitigate material ESG risks.
• Support cross-functional digitalization initiatives: Integrate sustainability & ESG perspectives into digitalization efforts.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts: Support sustainability-related ratings and ESG risk assessments.
• Support communications and presentations: Deliver key findings and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Ad hoc assignments: Perform additional tasks as assigned by functional leads.

What We're Looking For

• Candidate must be attending a 4-year university local to Auburn Hills, MI.
• Candidate must be pursuing a degree in Sustainability/ESG-related studies, Business, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, program management or related degree.
• Masters degree preferred.
• Candidate must have experience with data analytics and visualization.
• Candidate must have the ability to interpret and convert data analytics to easily understood business languages for stakeholders with non-technical backgrounds.
• Candidate must have effective project management and communication skills, have a positive attitude, and be a collaborator within a global cross-functional team structure.
• Candidate must have a minimum cumulative 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
• Candidate must be able to work 20-32 hours per week during Fall and Winter semesters up to 40 hours per week during the summer (primary office location in Auburn Hills, MI).