Mechanical or Chemical Engineer Internship Summer 2025
(Process Engineer Intern)
Mina, SDJune 2025 - August 2025
$24.00/HourMonday - Friday
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
SummaryThe Process Engineer Intern will join our dynamic Production team and play a vital role in supporting the department's daily operations. This entry-level position will provide valuable hands-on experience in a corn ethanol industry leader, with facilities in Aberdeen, Huron, Mina and Watertown, SD.
As a Process Engineer Intern, you will learn the basic process flow of the facility, specific parts of the process to improve efficiency and reduce costs. This includes basic process designing, troubleshooting, process optimization, process analysis, process documentation, quality control, project management, process automation. There will also be collaborate with operations, maintenance, commodities handling and lab to develop process improvements and implementation. Key initiatives include (but are not limited to) performing a plantwide debottlenecking process and evaluating plant utility efficiencies (steam systems and cooling systems).
Learning Objectives:- Learn basic process flow of dry mill ethanol plant.
- Read, interpret and redline P&IDs.
- Understand core PSM elements.
- Develop basic process control knowledge.
- Generate basic project requests
- Manage process improvement initiatives.
- All other duties as assigned.
GLE is offering our interns paid Holiday time while working this summer, as well as 16 hours paid Personal time.Employment for this position is conditioned upon successfully passing certain pre-employment requirements.