Research & Development Intern

Job Title: Research & Development Intern 

Date: 2025

Reports to: Senior Scientist 

Would you like to work for a company where ambitious spirits and creativity thrive? L&L Products offers a culture that grows talent and flourishes with innovation. It is a place where you are encouraged take control of your own professional development by using L&L’s extensive training opportunities to craft solutions to the industry’s hottest problems. Here is where quality of work, product and relationships are a priority. 

L&L Products is built on the basic philosophy that good people working together, listening to each other’s ideas with an open mind and everyone wanting to do a little better each day will ensure our success. Our existence is full of wise principles, sacrifices and victories, laughs, and lasting memories that tell exactly who we are. How we came to be the great company, the caring family that we are today.

What you’ll do: As an R&D Intern, you’ll work in a volume Manufacturing and Research Laboratory environment and gain experience in a diverse product line.

Duties / Responsibilities of this position: 

• Work in research & development lab to assist formulation development related to chemistry, chemical engineering, and material science. 
• Support ongoing research with literature searches, collecting and analyzing data and preparing reports and presentations.
• Weighing up chemicals per laboratory safety guidelines and producing formulations for testing
• Prepare samples for various testing scenarios 
• Document work including procedures, observations and conclusions
• Maintain laboratory equipment and organization.
• Lead safe practice in the laboratory. 

Job Requirements:

Education/Experience/Training: 

• Currently enrolled in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Material Science or similar program 
• Prior laboratory experience is generally desirable. 
• Versed in scientific methods, laboratory apparatus, and communication skills.
• Maintenance of laboratory or processing equipment. 
• Able to develop specific laboratory methods of analysis in select techniques. 
• Highly organized. 
• Able to handle and prioritize multiple tasks concurrently.

Competencies: 

• Performance Driven
• Communication
• Customer Centric
• Passion/Values
• Innovation
• Safety/Sustainability
• Collaboration
• Leadership

Physical Demands Analysis: 

• Continuous standing at laboratory or processing equipment
• Light to moderate lifting may be required
• Fixture, repair, and maintain processing equipment, as required
• Continuous computer work, keyboarding, computer mouse, and computer monitor
• Very adept at maintaining and improving safety requirements in the laboratory and work space.
• Rare climbing stairs, bending, and stooping
• Personal Protective Equipment Requirements (PPE): safety shoes, safety glasses, cut-resistant gloves, hearing protection, and other PPE.

Equal Opportunity Employer

L&L Products does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. L&L Products will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship.