Modeling and Physical Properties Intern (Spring/Summer 2025)

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Job Title: Modeling & Physical Properties Intern (Spring/Summer 2025)

Job Location: Wickliffe, OH

Job Type: Temporary

Type of role: On-site

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Modeling & Physical Properties Intern

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemicals market and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team. 

What You'll Do:

The Modeling & Physical Properties intern will work closely with our Process Modeling Consultant and process development teams.

• Develop prioritized lists of components requiring additional or improved physical properties characterization
• Eoordinate physical properties testing as needed. 
• Conduct physical properties characterization on selected components and provide assistance to engineers as needed in developing process models. 
• Search for available physical property data available in Lubrizol internal systems and open literature.
• Coordinate physical property testing for Lubrizol materials.
• Estimate and regress physical property parameters.
• Work with process development teams to assess and prioritize physical property needs.
• Collaborate with engineers to develop kinetics for selected processes, including
  • researching the open literature for relevant reaction mechanisms and kinetic rate constant values.
  • analyzing Lubrizol data to determine kinetic rate constants.
  • building reaction kinetics into Aspen Plus models.
•   Provide assistance as needed in training engineers in the use of Aspen Plus and related software.

What We're Looking For:

• December 2024 graduates entering a PhD program for Chemical Engineering with an acredited institution.
• Availability to intern from January 2025 to August 2025.
• Working knowledge of Aspen Plus and Microsoft Excel (required)
• Knowledge of Aspen Plus features for physical property analysis, including the Property Constant Estimation System (PCES), the Data Regression System (DRS), and Assay and pseudo-components (preferred)
• Experience with Excel macros (preferred)
• General knowledge of lubricant additive chemistries (preferred)

Benefits of Lubrizol’s Internship Program:  

• Become familiar with the roles for a Chemical Engineer within a specialty chemicals company.
• Gain an understanding of Research & Development work in a corporate environment.
• Develop skills required of Research & Development engineers who work within the chemical process Industries.
• Gain an understanding of the importance of physical properties in scaling chemical processes.
• Gain practical experience in estimating physical properties and regressing data.
• Rewarding your hard work! Competitive pay, including holiday pay for holidays that fall within your work period.
• Tuition reimbursement for fees associated with interning.
• Housing assistance and relocation assistance is offered to students with a permanent residence that is greater than 35 miles from their assigned work location(s) 

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Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.