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RESPEC

Engineering and science consulting specialists

Engineering Intern - Cavern Geomechanics

Summer 2027
No salary listed
Internship
Bachelor's, Master's
Rapid City, SD, USA
In Person
Architecture & Civil EngineeringGeotechnical Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Must be working toward a Bachelor of Science or advanced degree in geological, mechanical, mining, civil engineering, or a related field.
  • Have a fundamental understanding of engineering principles related to solid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics.
  • Have a fundamental understanding of coding in a high-level language such as Python, R, or a similar language.
  • Have strong working knowledge of common office programs such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Be able to work and communicate effectively within a team.
  • Be capable of independent study and problem solving while willing to ask for help when needed.
Responsibilities
  • Assist with geomechanical engineering studies of subsurface storage facilities in salt deposits.
  • Perform desktop engineering calculations, analysis, and numerical modeling simulations.
  • Support the collection and analysis of multiple types of complex data in various formats.
  • Assist in the preparation of technical presentations, reports, and other project deliverables.
  • Support the development of custom software tools, scripts, and methods for complex numerical modeling projects.
Desired Qualifications
  • Have a strong theoretical understanding and working knowledge of finite element analysis and numerical modeling software.
  • Have strong computer skills, experience with code development in Python, C, C++, and Fortran, and experience using a version control system such as Git.
  • Have solid time management skills and the ability to produce accurate, high-quality work efficiently.
  • Have working knowledge of advanced mechanical engineering concepts.
  • Have strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Be able to communicate technical ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing.

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RESPEC is a technology and engineering consultant that helps clients solve complex problems across data management, software, science, and engineering. It works by assembling multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and programmers who act as a think tank to understand a domain and then design, implement, and validate tailored solutions. What sets RESPEC apart is its emphasis on “know-how” and a large in-house group that can handle extreme situations with practical, hands-on expertise across industries. The goal is to make clients successful by turning deep technical knowledge into real, measurable outcomes.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$1.3M

Headquarters

Rapid City, South Dakota

Founded

1969

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What believers are saying

  • RESPEC opened Brookings on February 3, 2026, deepening South Dakota delivery capacity.
  • August 2026 Kartorium buy expands asset-management software margins beyond traditional consulting work.
  • June 2026 awards and federal contracts reinforce credibility across mining, energy, and public-sector clients.

What critics are saying

  • Mining revenue depends on junior miners like Lahontan advancing PEA and permitting in 2026.
  • Kartorium integration can distract teams and delay billable delivery through 2027.
  • A weak project pipeline in Alaska or South Dakota cuts utilization and employee-ownership payouts fast.

What makes RESPEC unique

  • 100% employee-owned; RESPEC ties at least 50% pretax earnings to employee-owners.
  • Combines mining, geothermal, geotechnical, and digital asset-management capabilities under one consulting roof.
  • Kartorium acquisition on August 26, 2026 adds browser-based digital twins and asset workflows.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

14%

1 year growth

14%

2 year growth

14%
Palladian Publications
Apr 22nd, 2026
Hycroft engages engineering firm to assess underground mining options.

Hycroft engages engineering firm to assess underground mining options. Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation has announced an update on its exploration activities at the Hycroft mine, located in Nevada, USA, a Tier 1 mining jurisdiction. Underground mining option on Brimstone and Vortex. The company has engaged RESPEC Company LLC to review underground mining options for the recently discovered high-grade silver systems at Brimstone and Vortex. RESPEC will collaborate closely with Hycroft's technical team, utilising all data from work completed to date. The scope of work includes evaluation of mining methods, conceptual mine design, and schedule development, culminating in an internal report to the company. In parallel, the company is evaluating the development of an exploration decline to enable underground drill access. This initiative is expected to maximise drilling efficiencies while delivering savings in both time and cost. RESPEC's engineering work will determine the optimal portal location and appropriate decline dimensions, which could also support future production. This work represents an important step as Hycroft advances exploration and evaluates future development opportunities for the high-grade silver systems. Diane R. Garrett, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented: "The appointment of RESPEC will help us assess the potential to develop a decline giving us direct access to our new high-grade silver deposits. The Brimstone system in particular starts from only 30 meters beneath the existing open pit so a decline will allow us to consider an underground drilling programme as well as give us early production options. We look forward to the findings of their engineering report in the coming months." Embed article link: (copy the HTML code below):

PR Newswire
Feb 25th, 2026
BillingPlatform Celebrates 2025 Partner of the Year Award Winners

BillingPlatform celebrates 2025 Partner of the Year Award winners. Feb 25, 2026, 09:03 ET PwC, RESPEC and Adyen recognized for partnership excellence and go-to-market impact DENVER, Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - BillingPlatform, the enterprise monetization platform for today's most innovative business models, today announced the winners of its 2025 Partner of the Year Awards program. The annual program recognizes partners that deliver exceptional customer outcomes, including faster time to value, improved monetization strategies and more efficient revenue operations. By collaborating closely with BillingPlatform, these partners help customers modernize complex billing, accelerate the launch of new offerings, and achieve measurable business outcomes across growth, margin and operational efficiency. BillingPlatform's 2025 Partner of the Year Award winners are: Global Delivery Partner of the Year: PwC PwC has been named BillingPlatform's 2025 Global Delivery Partner of the Year for its outstanding delivery of BillingPlatform solutions and measurable business impact for clients. The award recognizes PwC's leadership in deal influence, customer success and community engagement, along with its strong commitment to certification and continued learning through the BillingPlatform Academy. PwC's dedication to client satisfaction underscores its role as a trusted partner in driving digital transformation and monetization excellence worldwide. "Being named BillingPlatform's Global Delivery Partner of the Year is a reflection of the strength of our relationship," said Chris Dimuzio, principal, PwC. "Together, we've helped clients modernize complex billing and revenue operations at scale, delivering operational efficiency, increased control and solving for revenue leakage through the unique combination of BillingPlatform's leading technology platform coupled with PwC's delivery excellence and industry insight." Regional Delivery Partner of the Year: RESPEC RESPEC has been named BillingPlatform's 2025 Regional Delivery Partner of the Year, honoring its exceptional performance in delivering BillingPlatform solutions and driving customer success. This award reflects RESPEC's ability to influence deals, lead successful implementations and maintain strong client satisfaction. Through active participation in the BillingPlatform Community, ongoing commitment to partner training and certification, and valuable contributions to the Built on BP Marketplace, RESPEC continues to exemplify consulting leadership and dedication to partnership excellence. "We are honored to have received BillingPlatform's 2025 Regional Delivery Partner of the Year award," said Meagan Chaddick, senior vice president at RESPEC. "Our partnership with BillingPlatform is paramount to our billing program and has been our most fruitful relationship over the last five years. As the first delivery partner to BillingPlatform, the RESPEC billing team has had the privilege of collaborating with sales, product and professional services as we built mutual success in the market." Solution Partner of the Year: Adyen Adyen has been named BillingPlatform's 2025 Solution Partner of the Year, recognizing its leadership in developing and delivering innovative joint solutions that drive measurable business value for clients. This award celebrates Adyen's strong sales influence, successful customer integrations and outstanding client satisfaction. Through active engagement in the BillingPlatform Community and continued investment in certification and training, Adyen exemplifies the spirit of partnership excellence and innovation that fuels shared success. "We are honored to be recognized as BillingPlatform's 2025 Solution Partner of the Year," said Nadia Qureshi, VP, global head of commercial partnerships. "This award validates our strong commitment to partnership excellence and innovation, and it reflects the measurable business value we deliver to our mutual customers through innovative joint solutions. We look forward to continuing our active collaboration with BillingPlatform to ensure successful customer integrations and fuel shared success within their growing ecosystem." With a diverse set of more than 40 implementation, technology, payment and tax partners, BillingPlatform offers the most in-depth support to it partners, including training and certification programs, monetization community discussion hub and a marketplace of pre-built services, components and accelerators. "Our partners extend the reach of our platform and accelerate customer success by delivering seamless implementations, offering complementary solutions, powering frictionless payment experiences, and simplifying global tax and revenue compliance," said Matthew Kenneally, vice president of global ecosystems and alliances at BillingPlatform. "This year's winners showed unwavering focus on customer value and go-to-market excellence, and we are grateful to count PwC, RESPEC and Adyen - along with all of our partners - as important members of the BillingPlatform ecosystem." Award recipients were evaluated across criteria aligned to partner impact, such as deal influence and revenue outcomes, customer engagements, community participation, academy and partner certifications and marketplace contributions. To learn more about BillingPlatform's partner program, visit the company's partnership page. For a full list of BillingPlatform's partners, visit the find a partner page. About BillingPlatform BillingPlatform empowers businesses with innovative software solutions to optimize revenue generation through every stage of the customer lifecycle, powering growth through operational agility along with a frictionless customer experience. Our industry-leading, AI-powered platform is leveraged by global enterprises to optimize the customer journey from idea to revenue. With global customers across multiple industries, including software, finance, media, transportation, and communications, BillingPlatform processes billions of transactions and dollars every year, enabling enterprises to grow revenue, reduce costs and improve overall customer experience. To learn more, visit www.billingplatform.com. SOURCE BillingPlatform

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Feb 3rd, 2026
Lahontan Selects RESPEC and Kappes Cassiday to Update Santa Fe Mineral Resource Estimate and PEA

Lahontan selects RESPEC and Kappes Cassiday to update Santa Fe Mineral Resource Estimate and PEA. *TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / February 3, 2026 / **Lahontan Gold Corp. (TSXV:LG)(OTCQB:LGCXF)(FSE:Y2F) *(the "*Company*" or "*Lahontan*") is pleased to announce that the Company has retained RESPEC Company LLC ("RESPEC") and Kappes, Cassiday & Associates ("KCA") to update the Santa Fe Mine Project Technical Report, including a new Mineral Resource Estimate ("MRE") and Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA"). The updated MRE will incorporate all drilling completed since October 2024, and utilize new metallurgical data, mining costs, and revised gold and silver prices to design conceptual pit shells to constrain the MRE. Once the MRE is completed, the team will then focus on developing a revised PEA which should reflect the impact of the new technical data as well as metal prices. It is expected that the MRE should be completed in the coming months, with the PEA expected in Q2 2026. Kimberly Ann, Lahontan Executive Chair, President, CEO, and Founder commented: "Lahontan is excited to begin the process of updating the Santa Fe Mine MRE and PEA. Not only do we have additional drilling to incorporate into the MRE, but also a revised and very detailed three-dimensional geologic model, which will greatly aid gold and silver grade interpolation. Combined with new metallurgical data and upward trending metal prices, we look forward to an updated MRE. The PEA process is vital to Lahontan as it creates an operational model that can be used to evaluate multiple mining scenarios over a range of metal prices that in turn, will provide key data, i.e. process plant throughput, waste rock tonnages, etc., that will be used in our mine permitting program." *About Lahontan Gold Corp.* Lahontan Gold Corp. is a Canadian mine development and mineral exploration company that holds, through its US subsidiaries, four gold and silver exploration properties in the Walker Lane of mining friendly Nevada. Lahontan's flagship property, the 28.3 km^2 Santa Fe Mine project, had past production of 359,202 ounces of gold and 702,067 ounces of silver between 1988 and 1995 from open pit mines utilizing heap-leach processing. The Santa Fe Mine has a Canadian National Instrument 43-101 compliant Indicated Mineral Resource of 1,539,000 oz Au Eq(48,393,000 tonnes grading 0.92 g/t Au and 7.18 g/t Ag, together grading 0.99 g/t Au Eq) and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 411,000 oz Au Eq (16,760,000 grading 0.74 g/t Au and 3.25 g/t Ag, together grading 0.76 g/t Au Eq), all pit constrained (Au Eq is inclusive of recovery, please see Santa Fe Project Technical Report and note below*). The Company plans to continue advancing the Santa Fe Mine project towards production, update the Santa Fe Preliminary Economic Assessment, and drill test its satellite West Santa Fe project during 2025. For more information, please visit its website: www.lahontangoldcorp.com * Please see the "Preliminary Economic Assessment, NI 43-101 Technical Report, Santa Fe Project", Authors: Kenji Umeno, P. Eng., Thomas Dyer, PE, Kyle Murphy, PE, Trevor Rabb, P. Geo, Darcy Baker, PhD, P. Geo., and John M. Young, SME-RM; Effective Date: December 10, 2024, Report Date: January 24, 2025. The Technical Report is available on the Company's website and SEDAR+. Mineral resources are reported using a cut-off grade of 0.15 g/t AuEq for oxide resources and 0.60 g/t AuEq for non-oxide resources. AuEq for the purpose of cut-off grade and reporting the Mineral Resources is based on the following assumptions gold price of US$1,950/oz gold, silver price of US$23.50/oz silver, and oxide gold recoveries ranging from 28% to 79%, oxide silver recoveries ranging from 8% to 30%, and non-oxide gold and silver recoveries of 71%. *Qualified Person* Brian J. Maher, M.Sc., CPG-12342, is a "Qualified Person" as defined under Canadian National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, and has reviewed and approved the content of this news release in respect of all technical disclosure other than the Mineral Resource Estimate as noted above. Mr. Maher is Vice President-Exploration for Lahontan Gold and has verified the data disclosed in this news release, including the sampling, analytical and test data underlying the disclosure. *On behalf of the Board of Directors* *Kimberly Ann* *Founder, CEO, President, and Director* *FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:* *Lahontan Gold Corp.* *Kimberly Ann* *Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President, Director* Phone: 1-530-414-4400 Email: [email protected] Website: www.lahontangoldcorp.com *Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:* Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Except for statements of historical fact, this news release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law. Forward-looking information is frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates at the date the statements are made and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements including, but not limited to delays or uncertainties with regulatory approvals, including that of the TSXV. There are uncertainties inherent in forward-looking information, including factors beyond the Company's control. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by law. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties that could affect financial results is contained in the Company's filings with Canadian securities regulators, which filings are available at www.sedar.com *SOURCE: *Lahontan Gold Corp View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire

RESPEC
Sep 10th, 2024
RESPEC Grows Geothermal Expertise with Acquisition of Geothermal Resource Group, Inc.

RESPEC Inc. (RESPEC) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Geothermal Resource Group Inc. (GRG), a premier provider of geothermal exploration and drilling management services, effective August 31.

RESPEC
Sep 10th, 2024
RESPEC Grows Geothermal Expertise with Acquisition of Geothermal Resource Group, Inc.

RESPEC is pleased to announce the acquisition of Geothermal Resource Group Inc. (GRG), a premier provider of geothermal exploration and drilling management services, effective August 31.