# Process Optimization Engineer Intern

Job Summary: The Process Optimization Engineering (POE) Intern will support the POE team in improving the performance, reliability, and profitability of gas gathering, compression, saltwater disposal, and oil treating facilities across our West Texas Delaware Basin assets. The intern will assist engineers with operating data analysis, hydraulic and process model support, and capital project economics, gaining hands-on exposure to midstream oil and gas operations, field facilities, and data-driven optimization tools. Key Responsibilities: Assist Process Optimization Engineers in monitoring and analyzing daily gathering, compression, and facility operating data to support safe, compliant, and profitable operations. Assist with data compilation, process simulation inputs, and economic calculations to support capital project recommendations for safety, environmental compliance, and profitability. Support monitoring of compression, treating, and gathering equipment performance using SCADA and data historian tools (Seeq) Participate in Process Hazard Analyses (PHA) and Management of Change (MOC) reviews as an observer/contributor. Help prepare summaries, presentations, or documentation t

- **Id**: 4254993
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/western-midstream-process-optimization-engineer-intern>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: The Woodlands, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:26:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2984
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Natural Resources, Fossil Fuels, Oil & Gas

## Company

- **Id**: 2164816
- **Name**: Western Midstream
- **Domain**: westernmidstream.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/westernmidstream>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: yes
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T14:13:17Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T19:27:15Z

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