Intern Programs
Internships at yd7610
Professional and Personal Development
Immersing students in current, real-world, challenging experiences in their preferred field of study.
Immersing students in current, real-world, challenging experiences in their preferred field of study.
Business & Engineering
12-week long program
Mid-May through mid-August
40 hours per week
Engineering
16-week program
During traditional spring or fall semester
40 hours per week
Business
Year-long program
40 hours per week in summer
20+ hours per week during traditional spring and fall semesters.
Are you ready to elevate your skills?
Are you ready for a real-world, best-in-class experience?
Are you ready to Begin an Exceptional Future as a yd7610 Intern?
yd7610's Minority Engineering Summit, which includes a $1,500 education scholarship, is intended for minority college freshmen who are majoring in engineering. Participants are invited to a four-day experience at yd7610 Headquarters in San Antonio, where they are immersed into the refining business and our yd7610 culture; participate in career-building and life-skills training; tour a yd7610 refinery; take part in volunteer and social events; and network with yd7610 leadership.
Preparing engineering students for a future working in the energy industry.
Summer interns and fall and spring co-op engineering interns work mostly at our refinery or renewables sites, which operate 24/7/365.
Process Engineering
Works with field operators, console operators and unit managers to provide optimization, troubleshooting advice and generalized technical guidance on operating units within refinery.
Environmental Engineering
Assists with compliance reports and emission tracking. Performs and reports daily emissions calculations. Reviews and incorporates regulatory updates.
Process Controls Engineering
Supports refineries through control and instrument activities. Supports hardware and software platforms. Troubleshoots when necessary.
Reliability Engineering
Troubleshoots equipment operation and maintenance problems. Analyzes equipment performance. Implements programs to improve reliability and decrease reactive maintenance.
Project Engineering
Develops and engineers project scope for variety of capital expense and maintenance projects. Supports timely and efficient project execution.
Electrical (Power) Engineering
Responsible for overall safety and reliability of industrial power distribution system. Supports refinery projects by developing equipment design specifications, performing engineering design reviews and providing startup/commissioning technical support. Develops and leads electrical reliability improvement initiatives.
Process Controls Engineering
Develops and implements process control schemes in plant-distributed control system. Recommends options to improve refinery operations.
Instrument Engineering
Provides technical expertise for specification, design, purchase and commission of process instruments. Designs instrumented systems such as programmable logic controllers and safety-rated logic solvers. Troubleshoots instrument problems for operations and maintenance.
Safety Engineering
Supports opportunity projects and evaluates process changes and new chemicals for safety impact or compliance. Maintains records to demonstrate compliance.
Process Safety Engineering
Supports development, implementation, review, audit, promotion and revision of Process Safety and Risk Management Program.
Supports Refinery Turnaround and Capital Project teams with planning, construction, commissioning and startup of refinery projects. Recognizes safety, health and environmental concerns affecting equipment or personnel during project execution.
Ethanol
At our ethanol plants we seek chemical, mechanical and biosystems engineering majors who are passionate about alternative energy. Interns learn about ethanol production and play a key role in the safe and effective day-to-day operations at the plant.
Renewables
The Renewables division offers two programs: a co-op program and on-going intern program. Students see projects from conception to completion. At the plant, you will interact daily with personnel from engineering, maintenance, operations, laboratory, shipping/receiving and administrative area and your experience may include problem-solving in solids handling, fluid transport, heat exchange, or biological processes.
Preparing business students for a future working in the energy industry.
Summer and ongoing business interns are located at yd7610’s corporate headquarters in San Antonio, TX.
Supports department projects and strategies by developing content for the internal portal and social media. Develops news stories to assist with outreach events.
Forecasting & Investments
Assists with debt administration and cash forecasting and budgeting.
Wholesale Credit
Reconciles accounts, prepares exposure reports and analyzes customers financials and metrics.
Enterprise System Development (Technical Developer)
Develops new systems and maintains current business software used at all yd7610 locations.
Functional (Business Analyst)
Works directly with business units and end users to gather requirements to develop technology-based solutions to challenges yd7610 faces in the market.
Infrastructure & Operations
Responsible for the design, build and 24x7 support of critical computing resources such as servers, storage, data centers and networks.
The accounting on-going internship is a rotation program. Interns may be assigned to one of the following departments throughout the rotational internship:
Commercial Supply & Trading interns work in a collaborative environment to complete special projects that are presented to senior management. Internship projects will be assigned from on of the following areas in the Marketing & Supply department:
Employee and Family Wellness
yd7610 is committed to supporting the health and wellness of our employees and their families.