Internship - Chemical Engineering

2025 Chemical Engineer Student Summer Internship

St. Louis, MO, USA 

Date Posted:  Monday, August, 19 2024

Elessent Clean Technologies is a global leader in process technologies to drive sustainability and carbon neutrality in the metal, fertilizer, chemical, and oil refining industries with an unwavering commitment to customer support.  We provide extensive global expertise across our portfolio of offerings in key applications – MECS® sulfuric acid production, STRATCO® alkylation, BELCO® wet scrubbing, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing.  Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertilizer, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals, to minimize their environmental impact and optimize productivity.  We are dedicated to helping our customers produce high-quality products used in everyday life in the safest, most environmentally-sound way possible, with a vision to make the world a better place by creating clean alternatives to traditional industrial processes.

Elessent is offering a rewarding internship experience to bright, talented, technology-minded students with the leadership capabilities and determination to enhance our Clean Technologies Engineering organization during the 2025 Summer.  We have a variety of meaningful assignments that allow students to gain valuable experience in process design in an engineering environment.  The assignments provide students with opportunities to develop by integrating classroom theory with practical work and to demonstrate their skills for future career opportunities at Elessent.  The Internship period is an approximate 10-week commitment.

Key Responsibilities

In Clean Technologies Engineering, typical opportunities include: 

• Work in a dynamic, team environment that leverages subject matter experts in our organization.
• Develop an understanding of design and engineering work in a technology licensor environment.
• Perform analytical project work involving design documentation, tools and methods.
• Work with experienced technology professionals in the performance of your responsibilities.
• Develop an understanding of sulfuric acid technology, our product offerings and how projects are executed from proposal design to onsite startup and demonstration.
• Adopt and follow Elessent's core values of safety, ethics, respect for people, and environmental stewardship both on a personal and business level. 
• Work in a business casual environment with flexible work/life opportunities. 

The scope of the Intern's role will vary dependent on the project opportunities available at the time. 

Key Knowledge Skills and Abilities

The following requirements MUST be met for consideration in this student employment program: 

• Currently enrolled as a full-time student at an accredited college or university
• Enrolled in an ABET accredited program in Chemical Engineering
• Flexible with work assignment location/relocation
• Have the right to work in the U.S. without restriction 

Preferred Attribute:  3.0 GPA or Higher

In addition to these requirements, we are seeking candidates who have demonstrated the following core competencies: 

• Outstanding problem-solving, analytical and interpersonal skills
• Excellent writing/verbal communication and presentation skills
• Accomplished computer skills including Microsoft Office applications and database experience
• Strong work ethic and the ability to work in cross-functional teams to deliver concrete project deliverables in a timely manner