I&E Intern - St. James, LA Summer 2025

Your Job

Koch Methanol, LLC is seeking an I&E Intern at our new facility in St.

James, LA .

Koch Methanol owns and operates a Methanol Manufacturing Plant and Terminal in St.

James, LA.

Methanol is a critical building block used for the develop of products that are used in your daily life such as specialty automotive plastics, paints and adhesives, medical equipment, and building materials such as plywood.

Our Team

Koch Methanol is a Koch Inc.

company.

Koch owns and operates a variety of companies that work in many industries and create thousands of essential products that you use every day.

Industry leaders like Georgia-Pacific, Invista, and Guardian manufacture many of the materials that go into your home.

We even have companies who create transformative technology and fuel transportation, like Infor, Molex and Flint Hills Resources!

What You Will Do

As an I&E Intern you will work with our I&E team on projects to improve efficiency and up time while learning new skills that will prepare you for future roles.

Previous interns have worked on various projects within one of our facilities including:


* Assist technicians with calibrating, installing, verifying, and validating Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems


* Assist technicians with performing preventive maintenance, repair, or replacement of a variety of instruments including but not limited to, flow, level, pressure, temperature, vibration, variable frequency drives, electric motors, and analyzers


* Support daily maintenance workflow activities utilizing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)


* Partner with other operators, maintenance, and engineering to troubleshoot or repair equipment or plant issues.

Who You Are



* Currently enrolled in, or a graduate of a relevant degree, certificate, or workforce training program


* Willingness to work in an industrial environment which including availability for shift work and emergency call out, while working indoors and outdoors.


* Ability to meet physical demands such as:



* Climbing stairs, ladders, and working at heights.


* Ability to sit, stand, kneel as necessary ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds


* Ability to wear a gas mask-type respirator and PPE.

Ability to work off-shifts including on-call and weekends

What Will Put You Ahead

Previous experience working in a manufacturing or heavy industrial environment or previous military experience.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs.

This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions.

Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data.

The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills...