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- Sep 10
Are you ready to move your career forward and help shape our company’s and customers’ futures?
If you aspire to challenge yourself, work with the best in the industry and join a successful team where you can make a meaningful contribution, then we invite you to join us at Ketjen Corporation, a provider of advanced catalyst solutions to leading producers in the petrochemical, refining, and specialty chemicals industries. Together, we can create a legacy marked by innovation, excitement, and energy.
Ketjen is seeking rising sophomores and juniors to join our Summer 2027 Engineering Internship Program. The ideal candidate would be available to work full-time for 12 weeks from May 17, 2027 to August 6, 2026 at one of our sites in the Houston, TX area.
Why choose to intern at Ketjen? We offer:
What you'd do
- Seeking sophomore or junior level candidates (any graduation date between Dec 2027 to Dec 2029)
- Pursuing a Bachelor's degree from an ABET Accredited University majoring in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a similar discipline
- Cumulative GPA 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale
- Process development and scale up from bench scale to commercial scale
- Plan and execute sample productions of new chemical products for application/customer testing and market development
- Guide and support process hazard analyses prior to scale up
- Develop speculative economics for new products and processes
- Develop and implement safety, quality, environmental and profit improvement projects
- Communicate with, travel to, and provide technical support to operating plants worldwide to implement improvements, troubleshoot problems, or help increase production, reduce costs, improve quality or reduce environmental impact
- Provide "hands-on" mechanical engineering technical support in a chemical manufacturing plant.
What they want
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Must be able to commit to a full-time schedule (40 hrs/week)
- Prior industrial or manufacturing experience a plus
- Ability to participate in multiple Ketjen Internship or Co-Op sessions is a plus!
What you get
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package
- A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.
- Starts
- 2026-09-10