Fall 2025 Chemical Engineering Co-Op

Greif offers a great working environment and the opportunity to make an immediate impact at a company where your ideas are always welcome.

Job Requisition #:

029424 Fall 2025 Chemical Engineering Co-Op (Open)

Job Description:

Ready to ignite your career? Discover excitement and opportunity with Greif.

Greif offers a unique opportunity to learn, inspire and make an immediate impact at a company where your ideas are always valued. As a leader in industrial packaging, Greif is dedicated to creating solutions for life’s essentials, with colleagues delivering legendary customer service in over 35 countries.

Awarded the prestigious 2024 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award and 2024 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace,  Greif is committed to sustainability and values every team member as a colleague. Our journey towards becoming the best-performing customer service company isn’t just about metrics; it’s about the people and strategies that define us.

Ready to shape your career journey in a company as unique as you?

You've come to the right place.

Responsibilities:

Unlock invaluable corporate experience and propel your engineering career to new heights.

A co-op at Greif will enable you to:

• Apply academic knowledge to real-world scenarios, gaining industry experience
• Access professional development opportunities and learning material
• Gain clarity on your academic and career interests, as well as goals
• Assimilate into a corporate team environment

You will have the opportunity to:

• Assist in engineering assignments and ongoing projects
• Familiarize yourself with departmental functions
• Attend events and functions including social networking events and roundtables
• Contribute meaningfully to performance goals and assigned projects
• Create statistical analysis, charts, drawings, and reports to help illustrate and showcase potential issues within a product lifecycle or business process and how to improve it.
• Partner with the mill operations and maintenance teams to ensure efficient troubleshooting, planning, and execution of routine repairs.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering
• Minimum completion of two years or more of college preferred prior to the start of your internship
• Completed at least 4 semesters by the start of the co-op term, with remaining coursework
• Good academic standing with your Engineering major and school
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Able to work 40 hours for the duration for the co-op (January 6, 2025, to May 16, 2025)

What sets you apart:

• Strong academic background, with a preferred GPA of 3.0 or above  
• Understanding of basic Engineering principles and relevant functions
• Relevant work experience or involvement with professional clubs/organizations
• Ability to work effectively and with initiative both independently and on a team
• Curiosity and problem-solving skills focused on continuous improvement
• Strong attention to detail, maturity, trustworthiness, and dependability
• Excellent written and oral communication, organizational, time management, analytical, and adaptability skills

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