AddressWhat You Can Expect
As our Utility Performance Programming Intern based at the University of Iowa campus, you'll play a crucial role in leveraging real-time and historical data to enhance efficiency and cost savings for the campus utility system, providing steam, electricity, chilled water, water, and sewer services. You'll utilize the PI System software to connect with control systems at the campus Power Plant, Chilled Water Plants, Water Plant, and Electrical Distribution Systems, as well as real-time metering for various utilities across approximately 90 buildings. Your responsibilities will include assisting in the design, development, and deployment of custom applications interacting with the PI System, relational databases, web APIs, Office 365, and other systems.
We're actively seeking an intern available for 10-15 hours per week during the semester, with the potential for additional hours during summer or school breaks. The intern will work at the Energy Control Center in the USB building on campus, with operational hours from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, we are offering flexibility within this timeframe for start and end times. This internship is available for the summer / fall semester with planned employment to continue until December 31, 2024.
On a daily basis, you'll collaborate with our Energy Performance Engineer, Senior Software Developer, and Energy Analyst, following modern software engineering principles and best practices to develop, test, maintain, and deploy custom applications that interact with utility system data.
What You’ll Bring
- Must be an enrolled student at the University of Iowa
- Completed coursework in data structures, object-oriented programming, software development, or related programming courses is required
- This internship provides an excellent learning opportunity for students exploring career paths in Computer Science, Informatics, or related fields
Additional Details
- Daily attendance at a worksite is required
- Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Tools to create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, pivots, and charts
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is not exposed to weather conditions
- The noise level in the work environment is usually low
Compensation
Salary Range: $21.00 – $32.00 USD hourly
This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.
Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.
ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.
Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location
Why ENGIE?
ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it! Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.
In 2020 The University of Iowa (UI) entered a 50-year, trailblazing partnership with the University of Iowa Energy Collaborative (UIEC), a joint venture between ENGIE, Meridiam, and Hannon Armstrong, to operate, maintain and enhance the university’s Utility System. As the founding member of this joint venture, ENGIE designs, builds, operates, and maintains the energy infrastructure delivering safe, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable energy solutions in producing and distributing steam, electricity, chilled water, and domestic water to the main campus in Iowa City, Iowa and a nearby satellite campus.
At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community. ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees.
We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
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