Intern/Co-op

About the Role

Marathon Petroleum Company LP (MPC) offers internship and co-op opportunities to high-performing college students seeking meaningful, hands-on experiences in their fields of study. Interns and co-ops work alongside experienced professionals as contributing members of diverse work teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Systems Analysis Intern:
• Act as a liaison between IT and business units for translating business requirements into the development, implementation, and enhancement of new and existing systems.
• Identify and evaluate new IT capabilities to improve business outcomes, recommending and communicating appropriate solutions and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Develop and execute processes for creating, managing, and executing quality assurance for technology solutions.
• Manage and/or coordinate incident management execution in collaboration with internal and external parties.
• Cloud Engineering Intern:
• Support development and execution of cloud strategy within Marathon’s existing IT infrastructure.
• Implement Marathon’s cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, automation, maintenance, and support of cloud architecture.
• Evaluate public and private cloud systems to identify and deliver appropriate solutions.
• Infrastructure Engineering & Operations Intern:
• Focus on either Network Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Operational Technology (OT) Engineering.
• Support routine maintenance, performance testing, and basic troubleshooting of infrastructure systems to ensure optimal reliability.
• Assist with system configuration, backup and recovery procedures, analyzing performance data, and documenting solutions.
• OT Engineering interns additionally support industrial control systems such as HMIs and PLCs, collaborating with engineers and business teams to meet operational and technical requirements.
• Software Development Intern:
• Focus on either Software Engineering or Quality Assurance (QA) Engineering.
• Contribute to the software development lifecycle by ensuring both functionality and quality.
• Software Engineering Intern: Design, develop, test, and deploy enterprise software solutions, emphasizing automation, security, and continuous improvement. Apply engineering best practices, participate in code reviews, and document technical requirements and designs.
• QA Intern: Support the validation of solutions through manual and automated testing, assist in the development of test strategies, creation/execution of test scripts, and reporting bugs. Work closely with cross-functional teams to uphold quality standards across releases and contribute to documentation, automation, and the ongoing enhancement of QA processes within an Agile environment.
• Data Engineer Intern:
• Support routine data extraction, ingestion, transformation, and quality management activities that ensure reliable and secure data processing.
• Assist with the design and development of basic data pipelines.
• Perform data cleansing and normalization tasks.
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Support data security practices.
• Communicate project progress, troubleshoot minor data issues, and ensure consistency across data engineering processes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Concurrent enrollment in a degree-seeking program throughout the duration of the experience.
• Military experience is a plus.
• Locations: Corporate: Findlay, OH, San Antonio, TX and various refinery locations.

Qualifications

• Desired Majors: Information Systems/MIS/CIS, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer & Software Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering & other IT related Disciplines.
• Strong academic performance.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the US on a full-time indefinite basis without the need for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Compensation

• Min - $25.24 per hour/Max - $31.55 per hour