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Nationally recognized as a Top 100 Internship Program, WSP USA hosts hundreds of interns across the United States to gain hands-on, meaningful work experience to enhance their education and professional aptitude. Our interns gain exposure to real projects while working side by side with senior staff. Through our Developing Professionals Network, interns gain mentorship, networking opportunities and lifelong career connections.
Our Power and Energy Team is seeking a System Engineering Intern to work out of our Irvine, CA office. This temporary position is seeking individuals currently enrolled in an Undergraduate or Graduate degree program with an anticipated graduation date of August 2024 or later.
This internship is anticipated to take place during the Spring semester.
Your Impact
- Support a variety of engineering tasks with the goal to develop technical, social, and ethical skills.
- Learn basic principles of Energy and System Engineering.
- Intern will create communications diagrams, energy analysis using Excel, PVSyst, SAM, etc., preliminary project layouts, Matlab system modeling and programming.
- Provide engineering design support to senior engineers for wind, solar, BESS, CHP, hydrogen, microgrids, district energy, and EV Charge station project layouts, electrical single lines, piping and instrumentation diagrams, control, and communication systems.
- Providing technical engineering assistance for projects related to electrification and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.
- Analyze energy load demands for existing and new facilities.
- Develop and run models to simulate electrical loads and heat and mass balance calculations for energy systems.
- Assist in collecting and maintaining project documentation.
- Complete training on assigned tasks.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
- Please note that there is no relocation or housing assistance associated with this internship.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Actively enrolled in an accredited Mechanical, Energy, Energy systems, Electrical engineering, or related, Undergraduate program.
- Demonstrated interest in Renewable and Energy, or related field, and have a strong desire to advance skills related to WSP’s work and projects.
- Competent interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
- Experience and familiarity with interpreting and reviewing AutoCAD design drawings.
- Capable of taking direction from leadership, mentors, and managers to executive projects.
- Basic proficiency with technical writing, office automation, software, spreadsheets, technology, and tools.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Authorization to work in the United States at the start of the internship.
Preferred Qualifications
- Actively enrolled in an accredited Mechanical, Energy, Energy systems, Electrical engineering, or related, Masters or PhD program.
- Experience using MatLab, System Advisor Model, HOMER Energy, OpenWind, energyPRO, PVsyst, PVCase, Helioscope, and other energy modeling, design, and optimization software platforms.
- Prior internship and leadership involvement on campus.
Compensation
Expected Salary: $17.00 - $28.00 per hour
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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