Energy Intern

Job Description Summary:
 

Salary: $18.54 - $27.82 per hour

As an Energy Intern, you will join the engineering and energy team to solve challenges. Our solutions enrich our communities and improve the quality of life. As an Energy Intern you will focus on solving critical water infrastructure energy needs in the transitioning ERCOT power market. You may calculate, study, design, or review solutions to our water resources, hydraulic, or energy challenges.

Job Description

 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to this position.

• Using data to solve problems

• Data analysis

• Interest in energy markets and electric power markets

• Operations optimization for multi-megawatt loads

• Multi-variate optimization

• Business process analysis/systems analysis

• Data analysis and modeling using tools such as Power-BI, SQL, and Python

• Exposure to transactions in energy hedge, real time market, and day ahead market

• Field investigations

• Collecting and organizing energy data into usable formats

• Communicating solutions to others through presentations, emails, or memos

• Maintain familiarity with strategic District levels of service

• Continuous improvement monitoring and innovation efforts

• Perform other duties as required

Required Experience/Skills:

• Less than one (1) year of experience

• Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Desired Experience/Skills:

• Experience with Power-BI, SQL, Python, or other data analysis tools

• Completed statistics, data analysis, or business process management related courses

• Intern experience in energy management or data analysis

Required Education/Certification/License:

• High School Diploma

• Enrolled in an accredited 4-year college or university majoring in engineering sciences, mathematics, data science, business information systems, or similar analytically focused field. 

• Valid Texas driver’s license

Success Factors/Job Competencies:

• Receives supervision and guidance related to performance of tasks

• Willing to work on many different tasks

• Desire to produce high-quality work in a timely manner

• Possess good oral and written communication skills

• Ability to work collaboratively within a team

Physical Demands and Work Environment

 

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and use hand to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, talk or hear.  Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee typically resides within an office or cubicle and may have occasional field work, including job sites or construction locations, that will expose the employee to weather conditions prevalent at the time.