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.