Join the Southern Ionics Family
At Southern Ionics, we are growing and taking our employees with us. We are always looking for energetic and talented individuals committed to their field. Our promise is to provide a challenging and innovative work environment designed to foster employee growth while maintaining a small-company, personal feel. We offer and encourage participation in many educational and developmental resources for our employees.
We have a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to enhance employee’s whole health and understand that work-life balance is key. Southern Ionics’ compensation program is top of the market where our divisions are located. Competitive base salaries are supplemented with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans plus many valuable add-ions, wellness and employee assistance programs. Employees are rewarded for their positive contributions with an annual bonus opportunity. Southern Ionics offers a self-directed 401(k) with company matching contributions.
Southern Ionics recognizes that our employees are our greatest resource. We want to help you develop to your maximum potential.
Co-Op and Intern Programs
Chemical and Mechanical Engineering students are given the opportunity to gain valuable, real-world work experience while completing their undergraduate degree. Internships are considered for the fields of chemistry, accounting, safety and environmental, and business.
During my Co-op rotations with Southern Ionics, I worked with the Corporate Engineering Team. I aided with various calculations, such as mass and energy balances and hydraulic analyses. I also helped design and run a pilot operation. I was allowed to work on aspects of every project that the engineering team was working on and was given more responsibilities each term I returned. The engineering team pushed me past my boundaries and helped me accomplish more than I thought I was capable of. This is an amazing program that has prepared me for a full-time job by giving me real world experience.
Emma RichFormer Co-Op 
Now that I have begun my career as a process engineer, it is easy to look back on my co-op experience with Southern Ionics and see how it prepared me for my lifelong journey as a chemical engineer. Southern Ionics exposed me to a broad range of fields including project and process engineering, research and development, and EHSQ. This diversity has helped me tremendously in my new job as I find myself dealing with daily process and safety issues. I now have the skill set I need to troubleshoot these problems both quickly and in a safe manner. Southern Ionics also allowed me to take what I learned in college courses such as heat transfer, mass and energy balances, fluids, process safety design, etc., and apply that knowledge to real life engineering problems within the company. Southern Ionics has phenomenal leadership, the brightest minds around, and since it is a small company, it truly is a family. I cannot thank them enough for choosing me to be a co-op student many years ago, and I wouldn’t be the engineer I am today without them.
Brady HuntFormer Co-Op 
While working as a Co-Op at Southern Ionics, I was given responsibility for various projects that helped develop me as an engineer. The team at Southern Ionics always made me feel that my input was valued, and I was performing meaningful work. During projects, I was encouraged to take on new challenges and grow my abilities as an engineer. The activities I was involved in included preliminary process design, hydraulic analysis, and equipment design. Several pieces of equipment that I helped design are still in use today throughout numerous Southern Ionics manufacturing facilities. My experiences as a Co-Op were instrumental in helping me develop into the engineer I am today.
Curt Huffman, Former Co-OpOperations Manager, Pasadena, Texas Facility
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