Chemistry Intern - Summer 2025

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ATI is seeking to hire a Chemistry Intern for our Summer 2025 Internship Program. This position will be based in Millersburg, OR and will run from June to August 2025. Relocation and housing assistance is available for the summer.

Our Internship Program is designed to provide a rewarding experience and the features of ATI’s Internship Program include:

• Experiential Learning: Hands on work assignments and projects related to your career field of interest
• Professional Development: Curriculum designed to develop your business acumen and professional skills
• Professional Networking: Planned events meant to give you informal networking opportunities with other interns and employees

As an intern at ATI, you’ll gain hands-on experience, learn from experts, and collaborate with teams that do truly exceptional things. The projects and skills outlined below will be guided and directed by an established ATI-Professional in your field of interest.

What You'll Do

The Chemistry Intern will be collecting samples from Chemical Operations, running bench-scale experiments, and interpreting data obtained from laboratory analysis, as well as helping with projects such as discovering new separations technology or streamlining production processes. The ideal intern will be comfortable with extracting detailed context from data, have excellent interpersonal skills, and possess a drive to learn in a multidisciplinary environment. 

What You'll Gain

• Learn to understand varied and complex manufacturing process steps and the chemical species involved.
• Read relevant scientific literature for insight into chemical process steps and potential technological improvements.
• Develop awareness of potential exposures to chemical and physical hazards common in industrial environments and analytical laboratory spaces.
• Collect samples in an industrial setting, then prepare and submit samples for laboratory analysis.
• Set up experiments utilizing bench-scale processing or laboratory equipment.
• Record and interpret collected data and deduce conclusions that are relevant to production applications.
• Process improvements for the chemical separation and production of Zr and Hf
• Detailed process flow mapping of elaborate chemical process steps and their design
• New (non-metallic) chemical/composite/ceramic product development

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Must be currently enrolled and pursuing a degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, or related science or engineering degree. Chemistry highly preferred, as this intern will be doing significant chemistry work.

Experience in a wet lab via course work or research.

Preferences

• Experience with basic chemical laboratory safety.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) with professional communication skills, both verbal and written.
• A desire to learn more about chemistry or chemical separations.
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently when provided clear expectations and guidance.
• Able to prioritize, multi-task, and maintain attention to detail while understanding its context and impact within a bigger process or goal.
• Highly prefer a candidate seeking a Bachelor's, or other higher level, degree.
• Candidate has taken Inorganic Chemistry or related coursework.
• Candidate has any knowledge or experience with titrations, chromatography, ICP, or gravimetric analysis.

About Us

ATI is one of the largest and most diversified specialty materials and components producers in the world. When the challenge is searing heat, crushing stress, blistering corrosion, or all of the above, we earn the right to be a customer’s first call. For more than a hundred years, we’ve been meeting these challenges for customers whose systems need to fly higher, dig deeper, stand stronger, and last longer — anywhere on, above, or below the earth.

We thrive when the expectations are great, and the barriers are high. We're solving the world's most difficult challenges through materials science. Our advanced, integrated process technologies and proven performers give us a tremendous competitive advantage. When customers systems need to fly higher, dig deeper, stand stronger, and last longer -- anywhere on, above or below the earth -- ATI is proven to perform.
 

*It is ATI's policy to not provide immigration sponsorship for any of the company's positions.

Due to the nature of its operations, including certain federal government contracts, ATI Specialty Alloys & Components must track -- and in some cases limit employment opportunity based on -- citizenship or immigration status.

ATI and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected be federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.