Safety Intern - Summer 2025

Your Job

Begin your career in health and safety with hands-on experience in the refining or fertilizer industries.

Koch Capabilities invites dynamic and contribution-motivated college students to become part of our Safety Intern team.

Make a tangible impact at your site while building towards a long-term rewarding career in health and safety.

Our Team

You'll be an essential part of our dynamic safety team, creating real value while rapidly gaining hands-on experience in crucial areas like general safety, industrial hygiene, emergency response, and construction safety.

As a Safety Intern, you'll not only see the day-to-day operations of your host facility, you'll also have the unique opportunity to network, collaborate, and work with various safety professionals across the organization.

What You Will Do

Your experiences will be customized based on your personal interests, strengths, and the unique needs of your site.

Whether you're also passionate about occupational health, emergency response, or construction safety, this role offers limitless opportunities to dive deep into areas that excite you while challenging you to move outside of your comfort zone.

Gain unparalleled experience in:


* Frontline safety operations by diving into safe work practices like work permitting, energy control, hot work, and confined space entry.


* Proactive problem-solving by spotting and fixing issues in the field or being a part of project planning.


* Industrial hygiene by conducting sampling and completing surveys.

Be a part of a dynamic work environment through:


* Supporting day-to-day safety initiatives at your host site and learning about larger projects, turnarounds, key initiatives, and audits.


* Participating in incident investigations and emergency response drills.

Collaborate and innovate by:


* Forming relationships with not only the safety team, but also operations, maintenance, contractors, and site and corporate leadership.


* Developing transformative work processes and apps for front line-personnel.


* Benefiting from a site-based Safety Mentor and Corporate Supervisor who will guide you every step of the way.

Experience a new location with:

- A choice of host locations of Rosemount, MN or St.

James, LA.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Enrolled in a safety degree program, two-year technical college program certificate program, or upskilling program.

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, abilities, and geographic location.

If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

For this role, we...