Process Engineering Intern
Job Title: Process Engineering (Compounding) Intern
Date: 2026
Reports to: Process Engineering Manager
Would you like to work for a company where ambitious spirits and creativity thrive? L&L Products offers a culture that grows talent and flourishes with innovation. It is a place where you are encouraged take control of your own professional development by using L&L’s extensive training opportunities to craft solutions to the industry’s hottest problems. Here is where quality of work, product and relationships are a priority.
L&L Products is built on the basic philosophy that good people working together, listening to each other’s ideas with an open mind and everyone wanting to do a little better each day will ensure our success. Our existence is full of wise principles, sacrifices and victories, laughs, and lasting memories that tell exactly who we are. How we came to be the great company, the caring family that we are today.
What you’ll do: As a Process Engineering Intern, you will assist the Process Engineer with the safety, quality, productivity, procedures, training, maintenance, Gemba, continuous improvement, sustainability, and expansion of any of the following Compounding areas (TSE, MIX, EXT, CCS, LMX, etc…).
Duties / Responsibilities of this position:
- Assist the Process Engineer with activities relative to safe storage, handling, processing and disposition of chemistry and to preparation, operation, storage, handling processing and disposition of equipment in the compounding areas
- Assist the Process Engineer with product/process development. Support process development activities including material development scaleup, plant trials, equipment trials and the implementation/documentation of processing parameters and recipes from raw material to final part.
- Assist the Process Engineer with activities related to process launches including investigations, feasibility, proposals, trials/runoffs of processing equipment. Project Manage the recommended processing equipment including design reviews, equipment signoffs, run at rates and capability studies to produce any existing or new material/products at quoted/standard rates and efficiencies.
- Interface with production, quality technicians & engineers, process engineering technicians, support technicians and maintenance technicians to troubleshoot and eliminate material quality and process failure issues (including Gemba, Kaizen, RedX, Is/IsNot, DOE’s, and other studies so causes & effects can be identified). Drive continuous improvement with respect to quality (1st Pass Yield) and productivity (OEE).
Job Requirements:
Education/Experience/Training:
- Currently enrolled in a BS or MS in a technical field including: Chemistry, Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or Material Science
- Prior manufacturing experience is desired
- Compounding experience desired (not required)
- Excellent communication skills
- Project management
- Effective analytical and problem-solving skills/experience
- Knowledge of materials, mechanical and electrical systems
- Highly organized
- Able to handle and prioritize multiple tasks concurrently
Competencies:
- Performance Driven
- Communication
- Customer Centric
- Passion/Values
- Creativity/Innovation
- Safety/Sustainability
- Collaboration
- Expertise
- Leadership
- Personal Protective Equipment Requirements (PPE): safety shoes, safety glasses, cut-resistant gloves, hearing protection, and other PPE
Physical Demands Analysis:
- Occasional lifting, pushing and pulling up to 50 lbs.
- Occasional carrying up to 50 lbs.
- Frequent climbing stairs
- Frequent use of small handheld tools
- Frequent computer work using keyboard and mouse
- Frequent sitting at desk
- Frequent use of computer monitor
- Frequent standing and walking
- Occasional bending, stooping, twisting or balancing
- Rare crawling or kneeling
Equal Opportunity Employer
L&L Products does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. L&L Products will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship.